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[โ€“] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Threatens? Why is lobbying allowed in the first place?

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 1 year ago*

    Lobbying in itself is not the problem. Potential corruption and bribery are the problem.

    Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests and/or concerns to their representatives.
    That group could be a group of individuals or a business. A business lobbying the government could be as innocent as them informing the government that proposed legislation would make their business uncompetitive, leading to a potential loss of jobs and/or tax revenue.

    That said.. I don't particularly trust that Amazon's lobbying efforts are all that innocent

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    [โ€“] 90 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Why not ban lobbying completely?

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  • [โ€“] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because lobbying is also done be environmental groups, neighborhood groups, consumer activists, ... Ban lobbying would deprive a large set of the population of their voice

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    That would outlaw scientists lobbying the government to stop things like global warming and pollution. It would stop mom and pop shops from lobbying against things that are good for massive corps but bad for them.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    So what defines corporate? What defines paid? Youโ€™re excluding mom and pop shops and even medium sized businesses from your definition. How are lawmakers supposed to know if their law is gonna harm specific industries if businesses canโ€™t tell them?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So paid would include the owners (if itโ€™s an llc or similar), it would include anyone sent by the owners even if itโ€™s not their job title, etc.

    Iโ€™m pretty sure you can request all that information as well, with a FOIA request.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And when the EU writes a regulation like mandating USB-C chargers, they'll make sure the companies making phones are on board and get to have realistic timelines to implement these things. If you're going to regulate an industry you kind of need their expertise, unfortunately.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can still consult with various interest groups without allowing actually lobbying, but I get what you mean.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, ideally it should be government going to industry bodies, unions, etc if they need to know more about the topic they're trying to regulate instead of the current system where industry groups are basically writing laws.

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  • [โ€“] 51 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    revoke lobbying access

    Me, as an American: ...I can haz? Plez?

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  • [โ€“] 31 points 1 year ago

    DO IT, Come on already!

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 1 year ago

    Yes yes yes yes yes please

    But don't just do it for Amazon, do it for all parties.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hi, im Beff Jesoz and I have a company called Nozama and I'll give you 10 billion dollars to stop this.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    Notice that they're still committed to allowing the kind of bribing called "lobbying", just not that specific example of it..

    This is called cosmetic "Principles", see?

    establishment NEVER guts its own corruption..

    Never.

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