If you want to know which industries have the most influence in DC, study the trade deals struck by the #USTradeRepresentative, whose activities are the most obvious manifestation of American corporate power over state. Take the #IndoPacificEconomicFramework (#IPEF). As @ddayen notes, this treaty is a kind of #BigTech wishlist:
https://prospect.org/power/2023-04-18-big-tech-lobbyists-took-over-washington/
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/18/cursed-are-the-sausagemakers/#how-the-parties-get-to-yes
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Yes! A particularly insidious and perverse example of the third type is the copyright industry effort to replace that term with "intellectual property".
Why? Because the word "copyright" implies that it is a privilege that was supposed to be limited in time and revocable, while "property" is forever and sacred. 😡
Cory Doctorow
Tom Rake
Jorge Stolfi