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This isn't all that important, but what is important is that Google (unless this has changed) spends the most lobbying of any U.S. company. They don't want to f
by partiallypro 11y ago
This isn't all that important, but what is important is that Google (unless this has changed) spends the most lobbying of any U.S. company. They don't want to fall victim to what happened to Microsoft in the 90s.
- jinst8gmi 11y agoI don't think "Microsoft", "90's" and "victim" really go well together unless you're talking about Netscape as the victim.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoIts more Microsoft sleep waked into more than one legal problem that if they had been less politically naive woudl not have happened or been as bad.
- saucetenuto 11y agoDo you have a source for this? According to opensecrets.org, they're in the top 2 for tech companies (their major rival is Comcast), but they spend much less than Blue Cross/Blue Shield or the National Association of Realtors. This has been true since at least 2010 (as far back as I checked). They do sometimes spend more than Boeing, which I wouldn't have guessed.
- partiallypro 11y agoI meant to preface with "tech company." Google is only 9th overall, though they might have moved up in the past year http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/us-google-lobbying-idUSKBN0NC1UO20150421 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/us-google-lobbying...