• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    The problem with that is that some lobbying is good it’s just that the EFF for instance can’t compete with Google.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      How abut outlawing that corporations can lobby? You have to be a non-profit and ran by people not affiliated with any corporations. CEO has to make a low threshold per year. We can work around that.

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        Yes but the buggers always find a way around it. Charities are banned from lobbying in Britain. Greenpeace UK simply set up a corporate entity Greenpeace Ltd to do the lobbying for it.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        ran by people not affiliated with any corporations

        i get what you mean, but i worked with a lot of corporation soles. usually single practitioner medical practices, for the primary purposes of: limiting liability and ease of sale (when the MD/DDS wants to retire). i’m not bothered by small business corps, since you have to register as a corporation (in the US) to be a charitable organization.

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      it’s just that the EFF for instance can’t compete with Google.

      Exactly. Bad causes are so overrepresented in lobbying because lobbying as a concept is authoritarian, even if it can be occasionally used for good.