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[โ€“] TheMightyCat@ani.social 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Threatens? Why is lobbying allowed in the first place?

[โ€“] Humanius@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lobbying in itself is not the problem. Potential corruption and bribery are the problem.

Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests and/or concerns to their representatives.
That group could be a group of individuals or a business. A business lobbying the government could be as innocent as them informing the government that proposed legislation would make their business uncompetitive, leading to a potential loss of jobs and/or tax revenue.

That said.. I don't particularly trust that Amazon's lobbying efforts are all that innocent

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests

But in practice, it rarely happens without shady "deals" full of bribery and coercion.

[โ€“] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has anywhere figured out how solve the more money = more effective lobbying problem?

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

IMHO it is equal to solving the bribery problem.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

id really like to make a separate forum which only allows โ€œeu does a thingโ€ im a bit over reading about things that might happen