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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		The Soothing Promise of Our Own Artisanal Internet
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:09:49
	Publish Date:		2019-02-19 06:11:25
	Description:		To put our toxic relationship with Big Tech into perspective, critics have compared social media to a lot of bad things. Tobacco. Crystal meth. Pollution. Cars before seat belts. Chemicals before Superfund sites. But the most enduring metaphor is junk food: convenient but empty; engineered to be addictive; makes humans unhealthy and corporations rich. At first, consumers were told to change their diet and #DeleteFacebook to avoid the side effects.
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