Weeks after Amazon workers, trade unions and civil society allies supported Member of the European Parliament’s demand for an Amazon ban from European institutions, the European Parliament will be withdrawing Amazon’s lobbying badges. As a result, the company will effectively be barred from lobbying inside its premises. This is only the second time in the
While I agree with the statement that lobbyists are not inherently evil, I will call this out as an overly optimistic statement.
We have cases like Ylva Johannson trying to enforce the use of AI detection algorithms for CSAM after being thoroughly consulted by Thorn, a company that sells such algorithms (who spent $24M on this). Meanwhile, she never met with digital rights lobbyists despite them repeatedly asking for a meeting.
While I agree with the statement that lobbyists are not inherently evil, I will call this out as an overly optimistic statement.
We have cases like Ylva Johannson trying to enforce the use of AI detection algorithms for CSAM after being thoroughly consulted by Thorn, a company that sells such algorithms (who spent $24M on this). Meanwhile, she never met with digital rights lobbyists despite them repeatedly asking for a meeting.
Of course. I’m not saying it’s perfect, I’m just saying this is how things are supposed to work as opposed to the legalised bribery in the US.
Also good ‘ol bribing occurs at the EU parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63952993
And she got arrested and stripped of her power because of it. In the US that’s just normal business and perfectly legal.
She’s the one that got caught. She’s definitely not the only one in parliament accepting bribes.
But the point is she got caught and punished. That wouldn’t happen in USA because it is totally legal there.
Then you replace the politicians instead of making it illegal for them to consult other people.