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Can you name a country where lobbying is illegal? It's a core function of democracy.
by missedthecue 5y ago
Can you name a country where lobbying is illegal? It's a core function of democracy.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> It's a core function of democracy. Lobbying is not democratic. Corporations have far more money than individuals and therefore far bigger lobbying power. As a result, laws and policies will reflect what the small elite wants rather than what the people want or need. Because of lobbying, the copyright monopolists have systematically robbed of our public domain rights. Because of lobbying, we might as well not have the right to reverse engineer anything. Lobbying is literally billion dollar industries asking the government to help protect their interests. Hard to think of anything less democratic than that.