Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N...
by advael on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:14PM
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Your example is too vague to make much of, frankly, but in theory I'd believe perhaps it's possible for lobbyists' positions to align with or at least not contradict the public interest, though recent decades have shown precious few examples compared to the sheer volume of fuckery like this. A law could be written to not target all lobbying activity while still being able to draw useful distinctions between doing harm in the name of profit and providing some kind of useful industry insight (whatever that may be) to the process of government
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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N...
by jimbob45 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:33PM
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How about AI censorship? Without lobbying, how would corporations share their expertise on the matter for politicians to take into account?
Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N...
by Qwertious on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:39AM
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>Without lobbying, how would corporations share their expertise on the matter for politicians to take into account?
There is literally an entire govt department in the US whose core job is to unbiasedly keep the politicians informed on the expert details of the areas they're legislating.
Specifically, the Library of Congress (this is why the US Congress has a library), and it's Congressional Research Service.