@diemkay #Lobbyism as a #business or on behalf of #corporations and #billionaires needs to be outlawed!
Jag minns inte att vi röstat för att det ska finnas reklam för beroendeframkallande produkter.
IgÄr lyssnade jag pÄ en svensk podcast frÄn en av kvÀllstidningarna. Reklam för snus och spel. Varför har det blivit sÄ hÀr?
SÄ var det inte förr. Detta har inte kommit av en stark önskan ur folkdjupet och en demokratisk process. Det Àr ett resultat av lobbyismens frÀtande korrugerande gift.
Ăr samhĂ€llet inte till för mĂ€nniskorna? Ăr det bara profit och pengar som allting handlar om?
#lobbyism
RE: https://ohai.social/@noujoum/116079099458521416
"Chancellor of the Exchequer: 'Since the 1960s, we, the state and local government, have been using Microsoft products.'
The fact that the US company was only founded in April 1975 seems to have escaped the Chancellor's attention."
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This says a lot about what kind of people are the decision makers for these contracts worth hundreds of millions. And on what grounds those decisions are made. #DigitalSovereignty #lobbyism $$$
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116056780900371801
This is what I mean when I say that politicians are supposed to be lobbyists for the people: Not only should they not be so easily swayed by corporate marketing blitzes - it's literally their job to stand firm on the public's interests in face of such efforts.
Corporate lobbyists are - again, quite literally - their adversaries & we have to start yeeting every pol who doesnt't treat them as such.
EU:s digitala regelverk Àr under aldrig tidigare skÄdad press frÄn Trump-administrationen och en europeisk avregleringsvÄg. Nu visar ny analys av Corporate Europe Observatory och LobbyControl baserad pÄ EU:s öppenhetsregister att IT-industrin lÀgger till Ànnu mer eldkraft till sitt vapenförrÄd. De ökar sina lobbyutgifter till rekordnivÄer.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/02/07/tech-lobbyn-i-bryssel/@kim_harding Pay attention! These "researchers" are a company, a so-called research institute, #EpochAI, working for business: https://epoch.ai/about - and the bad boys!
They are more interested in benchmarking than in the truth.
I am extremely sceptical that they present any data independently, especially when it comes to environmental damage (couldn't find anything).
It stinks of one of these #lobbyism "institutes"! It stinks very much.
đïž @gerrymcgovern