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> Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle Washington My guess is that Facebook is going to look for its own specific interest not
by Hokusai 6y ago
> Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle Washington
My guess is that Facebook is going to look for its own specific interest not so much "pro-tech". That makes sense and it is the normal PR naming to make it more palatable.
I can see that Facebook lobbing sometimes is going to align with "tech" needs and other it would play opposite to it.
I cannot read the article, so, anyone knows if organizations like EFF would be included in this advocacy group, it includes just Facebook or which companies it includes?
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYup, that's pretty much what I'm getting. It'll be an exercise in doublespeak; on the one hand they will push for internet access for all, but on the other to do away with net neutrality so that they can offer free internet access to Facebook and co but paid for non-facebook, like they tried (and failed) in iirc India. They want to push the Libra cryptocurrency so they can literally print digital e-monies and get a chunk of that dank payment processing revenue. They want to not be held accountable for swaying public interest, because they already are - consciously or not. They are pushing to get more and more power, less and less government oversight. Pesky consumer protection laws, pfft, not for us.
- xenocyon 6y ago> if organizations like EFF would be included in this advocacy group Obviously not. The EFF is antithetical to Facebook's goals; it advocates for freedom from not only governmental but also corporate surveillance.
- extra88 6y agoYes, the group is not "pro-tech," it's "pro-trust" AKA anti-antitrust. They're anti-regulation that they don't write themselves.