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Your example is too vague to make much of, frankly, but in theory I'd believe perhaps it's possible for lobbyists' positions to align with or at least not contr
by advael 3y ago
Your example is too vague to make much of, frankly, but in theory I'd believe perhaps it's possible for lobbyists' positions to align with or at least not contradict the public interest, though recent decades have shown precious few examples compared to the sheer volume of fuckery like this. A law could be written to not target all lobbying activity while still being able to draw useful distinctions between doing harm in the name of profit and providing some kind of useful industry insight (whatever that may be) to the process of government
- jimbob45 3y agoHow about AI censorship? Without lobbying, how would corporations share their expertise on the matter for politicians to take into account?
- Qwertious 3y ago>Without lobbying, how would corporations share their expertise on the matter for politicians to take into account? There is literally an entire govt department in the US whose core job is to unbiasedly keep the politicians informed on the expert details of the areas they're legislating. Specifically, the Library of Congress (this is why the US Congress has a library), and it's Congressional Research Service.