The reason why companies like Google care to do things like lobby is that those companies get the majority of their power from the government, so of course they

The reason why companies like Google care to do things like lobby is that those companies get the majority of their power from the government, so of course they want to petition the government for more of it. It doesn't make sense to get into an arms race in this way. Instead, let's eviscerate copyright and patent protections, and let's take a wack at the corporate veil too. That will chop companies like Google down to size and make their lobbying irrelevant and/or useless while simultaneously weakening their power to control the rest of us.