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Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

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The trap is the size. A nine dollar junk fee is too small to spend your afternoon fighting and just big enough to bill ten million people at once. Theft engineered to stay safely under your outrage threshold.