Blocking Big Tech with Kashmir Hill

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How soon after waking up do you check your phone? Do you compulsively refresh your Twitter feed? Can you find your way around without Google Maps? There are many obvious and tactile ways in which Silicon Valley has its hooks in our everyday lives. And as we see Big Tech face increased scrutiny, people are becoming more conscious of their interactions with technology: limiting screen time, quitting Facebook, shopping locally instead of using Amazon. But fully divorcing yourself from these companies is a lot harder than you may think, as journalist Kashmir Hill discovered. Just behind our obvious interactions with Big Tech, there are many more invisible ways they touch our lives. This is Kashmir’s story of what happens when you shine a light on those unseen encounters. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening RELATED READING Life Without the Tech Giants by Kashmir Hill Amazon's Antitrust Paradox by Lina Khan YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Amazon's Wish List with Stacy Mitchell (released Jan 22)

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0:00.0	I turn off my phone at night, like at eight or nine p.m.
0:02.6	I just like turn it off, which I used to never do.
0:05.4	My phone would be on until the battery died.
0:07.3	And then that would be a very traumatic event.
0:10.1	So now I try off my phone at night.
0:11.2	It's not the first thing I reach for on the morning.
0:14.0	Whereas before I touch my husband,
0:15.6	before I talk to my daughter, I would just pick the phone up
0:18.7	as soon as I woke up and start scrolling through it.
0:20.8	And I realized I actually hate that.
0:23.6	I don't want to start my day every day,
0:25.6	mainlining the internet through this technology
0:28.8	that has been forced upon me by the tech giants
0:32.1	in the world that they're creating.
0:33.8	Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me?
0:39.4	Your host, Chris Ais.
0:41.2	Like everyone in the modern world,
0:43.8	I spent too much time on my phone.
0:45.8	And I have a lot of self loading over that.
0:49.2	I'm trying to decrease my phone time, decrease my screen time.
0:54.5	But of course, part of the problem with that
0:57.8	is that the phone is engineered to make you look at it
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