> How come none of the big tech lobby against it in the EU? Because lobbying isn't equivalent to corruption and doesn't automatically get you the laws you want

> How come none of the big tech lobby against it in the EU? Because lobbying isn't equivalent to corruption and doesn't automatically get you the laws you want. The European Commission had a three months comment period in 2020 where various interest groups (FAANGs, non-profits, media groups, open-source giants like Mozilla, etc) all submitted their position (which IIRC usually boiled down to "yeah, regulating is awesome, please regulate everyone but me!"). It submitted its report in December 2020, at which point most of the key points were already decided. No doubt interest groups sent a lot of people to lobbies in the following years to discuss details and push in one direction or another, but by then the commission and parliament had a pretty good idea what they wanted the final law to look like anyway.