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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by ksdale on Saturday February 15, 2020 @04:05PM (#22337962)
Why do they lobby as much as they do if they’re getting everything they want?
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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by icebraining on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:03PM (#22338648)
They are getting what they want because they lobby as much as they do, not in spite of them.
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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by ksdale on Monday February 17, 2020 @02:26PM (#22349928)
That sounds like a just so story to me, though. They could spend way more on lobbying, and get more - more subsidies, more tax incentives, etc. but they don't. It seems very unlikely to me that they get everything they could possibly want for such a tiny fraction of what they could spend, given that most everything at the Fortune 500 level is a race to the bottom.
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