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isn't that lobbying too?
by pysxul 7y ago
isn't that lobbying too?
- bryanlarsen 7y agoThe OTA is like a librarian. They don't go to you, you ask them questions. Of course the answers they give may be filtered through the librarian's bias, but that's fundamentally different than lobbying.
- rc_kas 7y agoGreat job of breaking this down and making it simple to understand.
- LargeWu 7y agoNo, because it's a government agency. The point is so that elected officials and other government agencies can get nonpartisan guidance on tech issues that is independent from corporate interests.
- ajross 7y agoIt's also hardly a unique idea. The Congressional budget office, the Congressional research service and the government accountability office are existing examples of successful expert agencies run by Congress on a nonpartisan basis. There's no good reason why a tech office shouldn't be there too.