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Dina Srinivasan
@DinaSrinivasan
I research and fight against economic injustice. For the case against Facebook, then Google:
Jan 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Expanding on this idea.

Look, not long ago, credit card firms robbed consumers by burying rates and terms in long contracts that people don't read or understand. We passed a bunch of legislation to stop these abuses. TIL, etc.

Today, the new valuable property asset is data. 1/ Now we have the same trick, new industry.

Exploding growth and wealth in a few digital firms is a result of those firms playing the same hand: bury data costs and terms in long contracts that people don't read or understand. 2/
Sep 27, 2019 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Ok, I’m going to unpack this attempt to dismiss market power concerns over Google and Facebook. 1/ “Bytes” is a wholely irrelevant metric and anyone on the business side wouldn’t even know what you are talking about.
Aug 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Few antitrust thoughts on this thread from @random_walker @jonathanmayer -
1/5 The level of Google tracking now reflects a monopoly rent imposed on consumers. Consumer preference studies show this; I outline it for parallel FB tracking here scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bblj/vol16/iss… 2/5 Several reports show that Google makes YouTube content creator tools inaccessible to users that are not also using Google’s Chrome browser. In other words, Google is using its power in online video to force users to use Chrome.