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Tech giants, while getting worse in terms of lobbying etc. are still much more benign than the old-school industry giants we have in europe. The European Roundt
by WanderPanda 2y ago
Tech giants, while getting worse in terms of lobbying etc. are still much more benign than the old-school industry giants we have in europe. The European Roundtable for Industry [1] is particularly disgusting. The bigcorp lawyers are essentially writing EU law…
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Round_Table_for_Industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Round_Table_for_Indus...
- User23 2y agoThe so-called legislators and “lawmakers” in the USA also don’t write laws. The process is complicated, but at an overview level the real lawmakers hire lobbyists to go find an office holder to rubber stamp a bill they have written and want enacted. The lobbyists are just bagmen of course.