I think technology companies are sort of notorious for not being very good at the lobbying game. MS just started getting serious about it in the late '90s (and

I think technology companies are sort of notorious for not being very good at the lobbying game. MS just started getting serious about it in the late '90s (and I think they have no dog in this particular fight) so we should expect Google to start figuring it out in a few years and Facebook later still. (MS's PAC was funded to the tune of $16,000 in 1995, 100x that 5 years later.)