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• • Re: (Score:2)

    by stephanruby ( 542433 ) writes:

    Why are we focusing on Amazon?

    Amazon doesn’t even figure as one of the top 10 lobbyists in the United States.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/lo… [opensecrets.org]

    Of course, these stats don’t even take into account the Super PACs
• Jeff, you’ve been out-whataburgered (Score:2)

  by rmdingler ( 1955220 ) writes:

  Lobbying, at its most basic, is peddling monetary influence in exchange for political influence.

  All these target markets for influence, and nothing for Bleecker Street. The saddest part of it all is the American President out-thought you there.
• Legalized bribery (Score:2)

  by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

  Shame on you, GOP judges.
• richest company has the most lobbyists (Score:1)

  by Anonymous Coward writes:

  news at 11
• Tech learns from its mistakes. (Score:2)

  by SvnLyrBrto ( 62138 ) writes:

  Tech companies engaged in hardly any lobbying back in the ’90s during that tech boom. And we got screwed because of it. Established industry players, with long histories of LOTS of lobbying bought laws like the DMCA, for example. How many tech companies were wiped out by that one abuse alone? I had friends at Napster, and at two other Napster-like companies, that were put out of work by the RIAA/Metallica lobby. And the demise of one of the companies I worked for was hastened by being forced to waste e

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