Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am...
by AnthonyMouse on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:29PM
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> Tech companies don’t deal with that, so it’s amazing they manage to spend more.
It's not really that surprising, because they're not only affected by it but on multiple fronts.
There was a time when Google spent hardly anything on lobbying. Meanwhile Hollywood was promoting things like SOPA, Microsoft was at one point operating a major anti-Google lobbying campaign, ISPs want to violate network neutrality, etc.
It's one thing to not want to fight, something else to not respond when provoked.
It's not really that surprising, because they're not only affected by it but on multiple fronts.
There was a time when Google spent hardly anything on lobbying. Meanwhile Hollywood was promoting things like SOPA, Microsoft was at one point operating a major anti-Google lobbying campaign, ISPs want to violate network neutrality, etc.
It's one thing to not want to fight, something else to not respond when provoked.