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We need a well-organized lobbying effort to support the interests of United States internet companies. Those survey numbers are actually astounding. The most s
by s_q_b 13y ago
We need a well-organized lobbying effort to support the interests of United States internet companies. Those survey numbers are actually astounding.
The most surprising thing about lobbying and donation efforts is that they aren't really all that expensive. All it takes is a few hundred thousand to a million to swing a tight election. The amounts aren't that large. Maybe a crowdfunding campaign for a Free Internet PAC?
- rodgerd 13y agoFrom my perspective outside the States, there is already government support, which is the full-court press US ambassadorial staff have been running in Australia and New Zealand to categorise privacy and data sovereignty laws as unfair and illegitimate anti-competition laws whose sole purpose is to prevent companies like Amazon gutting the local IT markets. I imagine they are running the same line in Europe. I wonder what Amazon's relationship with the US government is like?
- s_q_b 13y agoSure, there are some interests that run in the opposite direction. But domestically, the amount of power Silicon Valley and tech centers across the country hold in Washington is not commensurate with their economic and cultural clout. Certainly it is time for that to change.
- Andrex 13y ago> We need a well-organized lobbying effort to support the interests of United States internet companies. Was launched after SOPA: http://internetassociation.org http://internetassociation.org
- s_q_b 13y agoThey're just starting to get serious, but the Internet Association is playing way too much softball, and more importantly they're pushing more for the specific corporate goals of their financiers than the interests of the internet at large.
- Andrex 13y agoDo you have any specific examples? I haven't been keeping up (I know, I know, I should be.)