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It's very possible. They did it to the tobacco industry. http://www.thetruth.com/ http://www.thetruth.com/ Essentially, as part of the Master Settlement Agree
by fivedogit 12y ago
It's very possible. They did it to the tobacco industry.
http://www.thetruth.com/ http://www.thetruth.com/
Essentially, as part of the Master Settlement Agreement, the government just said, "You have to put X dollars into this independent anti-smoking group."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheTruth.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheTruth.com
- pyre 12y agoThis is slightly different because it's just a public campaign: TheTruth.com uses web, print and television promote its message. Lobbying efforts are different. How do you know that Comcast-TWC wouldn't just put more funding into a group that opposed municipal broadband than they put into the required pro-muni broadband group?
- Bud 12y agoThat illustrates my point: that's not lobbying. That's giving money to someone else, who then does the lobbying. Very different.