The very second paragraph from the link you posted reads: "The ethics and morals involved with legally bribing or lobbying or influence peddling are complicate

The very second paragraph from the link you posted reads: "The ethics and morals involved with legally bribing or lobbying or influence peddling are complicated. Lobbying can, at times, be spoken of with contempt, when the implication is that people with inordinate socioeconomic power are corrupting the law in order to serve their own interests" Here context is crucial: the sentence in the parent post was a response to "a long story of corruption and lobbyism". In most countries it's illegal to hand money to politicians and its seen as corruption, with few strictly regulated exceptions. In the US it's very different and the amount of money involved is staggering. The term "a long story of corruption and lobbyism" is not referring to the legal and socially acceptable "lobbying" but the other one.