Keep the Internet Open

Re:Keep the Internet Open by DannyBee on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:04PM (#13871463)

"Things have changed fast; Google hardly even had lobbyists back during the SOPA blackout. "

Errr, the DC office had 100+ people at that point, so ....

(IE i'm not sure why you think that, and given it's completely wrong, i'm going to go with 'you just have no idea what you are talking about')

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Re:Keep the Internet Open by nnutter on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:11PM (#13871516)

It was the rhetoric at the time and it might even be somewhat true, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002200...

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Re:Keep the Internet Open by DannyBee on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:27PM (#13871626)

Depends on how you define lobbyist, i guess, but that's the set of external folks, not internal ones.

In any case, i was second person to start in the DC office (after the policy director), so i can assure you i know precisely how many people it had at working on government affairs/lobbying/etc at a given point in time :)

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Re:Keep the Internet Open by confounded on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:18PM (#13871570)

Thanks for pointing this out; fixed.

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