#lobbying — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lobbying, aggregated by home.social.
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...vanno avanti le 'facce di bronzo' - perde la democrazia
https://www.rsi.ch/info/svizzera/F-35-molte-reazioni-ma-nessuno-scossone--4076624.html
#CH #politica #VBS #armasuisse #lobbying #F35 #bugie #corruzione
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Big money is damaging trust in our politics.
#UK #Government has announced a taskforce on mega-donations, but has not said what it will do and when.
We’re calling on the Government to deliver REAL action on big money in #politics, and urgently.
https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/200435/petition/1
#corruption #donations #politics #DemocracyNOW #lobbying #bribes
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Everyone wants a line in the State of the European Union speech – POLITICO
“A mention is a signal, a specific commitment is politically meaningful, a commitment with a deliverable and timetable…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #Alcohol #Animalwelfare #electriccars #EUStateoftheUnion #healthcare #lobbying #UrsulavonderLeyen
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When Should Corporate Lobbying Trigger EU Competition Scrutiny?
In new research, Francisco E. Beneke Avila proposes a multifactor test to distinguish between the legitimate exercise of…
#Europe #EU #antitrustandcompetition #EuropeanUnion #lobbying #Regulation #regulatorycapture
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Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..
#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics
Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/ -
Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..
#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics
Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/ -
Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..
#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics
Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
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Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..
#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics
Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/62197bd7-f61f-43fa-b37a-77b8373dbb6c/ -
Another tale of grift, lobbying and conflict of interest, this time with ex-Tory thug, Jonathan Gullis. Quelle surprise..
#ReformUK #Lobbying #UKPolitics
Ex-Tory MP-turned-Reform councillor landed lobbying job after defecting
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Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna PrendergastWith the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.
#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast
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Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna PrendergastWith the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.
#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast
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Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna PrendergastWith the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.
#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast
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Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna PrendergastWith the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.
#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast
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Stalwart says fishing industry facing wipe-out without radical change
By Joanna PrendergastWith the state government cutting $400,000 in funding from the WA Fishing Industry Council, a veteran fisherman says their political advocacy needs a significant rethink.
#FishingandAquacultureIndustry #Lobbying #Agribusiness #JoannaPrendergast
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News live: parents of Australian surfers killed in Mexico fly in for trial; Labor pressured to toughen lobbying rules
By Guardian staffFollow the day’s news live
#AnthonyAlbanese #Laborparty #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Mexico #Lobbying #Parentsandparenting #AustralianGreens #Coalition #Socialmediaban #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff
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Australia news live: parents of Australians surfers killed in Mexico fly in for trial; Labor pressured to toughen lobbying rules https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/07/anthony-albanese-labor-lobbying-rules-greens-social-media-fines-ntwnfb #AnthonyAlbanese #LaborParty #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Mexico #Lobbying #ParentsAndParenting #AustralianGreens #Coalition #SocialMediaBan
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Ah the beautiful revolving door...
"Matt Clifford, British entrepreneur and former #AI advisor to the prime minister, has joined #Anthropic to lead on government affairs in every market outside North America.
The former AI advisor to prime ministers #RishiSunak and #KeirStarmer began the London-based role yesterday and reports to Tino Cuéllar, Anthropic’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, who joined in August. Clifford’s official title will be Managing Director, International Affairs."
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@crazyeddie @aworkinglibrary
It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.
Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.
And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.
The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.
The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars -
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What kind of person do you actually have to be
to be a lobbyist?
To do really good lobbying work?❓ ❔ ❓
I’m watching something right now—
an interview
that also features Mendelsohn and the Global Council—
and I couldn’t help but ask myself this question.What do you think?
What kind of person do you actually have to be to do this kind of work??#mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #question #answer #poll #thoughts #lobby #lobbying #world #opinion
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#TaylorFarms Spent Big on #MAGA and #AntiRegulatory #Lobbying Before #Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to #conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the #MAGAInc. #SuperPAC.
by Kate Taylor, Jul 21, 2026
"The lettuce supplier at the center of the turbo diarrhea outbreak has spent millions of dollars to sway sentiment around #FoodRegulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans, according to public filings.
"Taylor Farms donated more than $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That includes a $1 million donation to MAGA Inc., the Trump-centric super PAC, and $1.1 million to other super PACs dedicated to electing Republicans.
"From 2020 through the end of 2024, the company donated more than $1.6 million to conservative PACs, including a total of $850,000 to #AFPAction, an anti-regulation super PAC with ties to the #Koch network.
"#BruceTaylor, the chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, is also a longtime donor to Republican causes. Since 2020, Taylor has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates, including contributions to Texas senator #JohnCornyn and Tennessee senator #MarshaBlackburn."Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-maga-donations-lobbying/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zUBU5#KochBrothers #KochNetwork #Capitalism #Crapitalism #USPol #CyclosporaOutbreak
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Kategorie 'Was mich an der EU massiv stört'
Die EU lockert ihre Regeln für Schadstoffe in Lippenstift, Sonnencreme und Co.
Vertreter aus dem Europaparlament und dem Rat der 27 EU-Länder einigten sich in der Nacht auf Mittwoch darauf, dass Kosmetika mit gefährlichen Chemikalien künftig länger auf dem Markt bleiben dürfen
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000327629/eu-lockert-regeln-f252r-schadstoffe-in-kosmetika
#Schadstoffe #Kosmetika #Gesundheit #Lobbying ?
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"The firm’s ascent in Washington has been fueled by massive influence spending, co-founder Marc Andreessen’s close ties to Trump, and a network of former firm partners working in key administration positions. It’s also benefited from savvy casting of its portfolio of insurgent startups as exemplars of the kind of free-market innovation celebrated by Republican Washington’s reigning conservative ideology.
Andreessen Horowitz’s bold, maximalist approach and deregulatory zeal have buttressed the administration’s view that most government-imposed guardrails on AI endanger US competitiveness in a fast-developing technology that has helped power the country’s recent economic growth. It has been a key driver of the Trump White House’s moves to thwart state governments’ efforts to regulate AI.
White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement that Trump and his advisers are “always willing to hear out business and technology leaders” but “the only special interest guiding the Administration’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people and the only person with veto power over the Administration’s policy-making is President Trump.”
McCune said in a statement Trump is the "only person setting AI policy for this administration."
As of January, a16z had $90 billion in assets under management, making it the richest venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. The firm recently raised $15 billion, its largest haul ever, and has dedicated billions to AI upstarts including coding startup Cursor and AI leaderboard platform LM Arena. They all stand to benefit from the kind of minimal regulatory policies the firm is pressing in Washington, as would stakes a16z holds in larger companies such as OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-10/trump-s-ai-policy-shaped-by-vc-tech-giant-andreessen-horowitz#USA #AI #BigTech #a16z #VC #VentureCapital #Trump #Lobbying
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#Wedding #PhotoBooth Company Exposes Customers’ #Drunken #Photos
A photo booth company that caters to weddings, #lobbying events in D.C., and #engagement #parties has exposed a cache of peoples’ photos, with the revellers likely unaware that their sometimes drunken antics have been collected and insecurely stored by the company for anyone to download.
#privacyhttps://www.404media.co/wedding-photo-booth-company-exposes-customers-drunken-photos/
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Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI – Gizmodo
Jensen Huang © FotofieldJensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
“[It’s] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we’ve done a lot of damage,” he said.
By AJ Dellinger, Published January 12, 2026
Reading time 3 minutes
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started a couple of years ago, would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune. It’s really harshing his vibe.
In an appearance on the No Priors podcast hosted by Elad Gil and Sarah Guo, Huang took aim at people who have suggested AI may have some significant, detrimental impact, from job displacement to expanding the surveillance state. “[It’s] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we’ve done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative,” he said.
According to Huang, considering the potential existential risks of unleashing AI on society may do more harm than good. “It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to the industry. It’s not helpful to society. It’s not helpful to the governments,” he said. He particularly took issue with other people in the industry going to the government and asking for regulation and mandatory safeguards. “You have to ask yourself, you know, what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions,” he asked rhetorically. “Why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups?”
Huang isn’t totally off-base about some of what he’s suggesting. Regulatory capture is a real risk, especially as multi-billion-dollar companies look to lock in their lead by using their absurd wealth to sway politicians and cement favorable policy. And there’s no doubt that AI players have been getting into the lobbying business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Silicon Valley firms have already poured more than $100 million into new Super PACs to push pro-AI messaging in the lead-up to midterm elections in 2026. There is also zero doubt that industry players use societal-scale risks as a marketing tactic: it makes their product seem full of endless potential, and it suggests they need to maintain control of it to keep everyone safe rather than letting this powerful tool fall into the wrong hands or be controlled by some government regulator.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
Tags: AI, Changes, Gizmodo, Government, Harms, Huang, Jensen Huang, Jobs Done by AI, Labor, Lobbying, Nvidia, Positive View, Regulatory Capture, Technology, Work Changes
#AI #Changes #Gizmodo #Government #Harms #Huang #JensenHuang #JobsDoneByAI #Labor #Lobbying #Nvidia #PositiveView #RegulatoryCapture #Technology #WorkChanges -
Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-lobbies-republicans
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Republican state lawmakers will make another push to bar local governments from spending public funds on lobbying.
#News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #89thTexasLegislativeSession #DeathStarBill #Lobbying #LocalGovernment #SenMayesMiddleton #UHHobbySchoolOfPublicAffairs
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Money talks in the world of copyright legislation, and that’s a big problem for ordinary Internet users
Copyright has always been about money. That’s why the copyright industry fights so hard to strengthen legal protections, in order to boost its profits. However, getting detailed information about how much money is involved, and who receives it, is hard, because there are so many small pieces to the overall copyright ecosystem. That makes a long post exploring money …
#euCopyrightDirective #LawrenceLessig #lobbying #musicIndustry #musicStreaming #napster #P2P #ugc #uk #userGeneratedContent
https://walledculture.org/money-talks-in-the-world-of-copyright-legislation-and-thats-a-big-problem-for-ordinary-internet-users/
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These Are Congress’ Biggest Private Equity Investors
Among the 22 members of the House and Senate who #reported investing in private equity last year, 10 were Republicans and 12 were Democrats.
They ranked among the wealthiest members of Congress, an already elite club composed mostly of millionaires that has done little to get rid of the #carried #interest #loophole, the quirk in federal tax law that allows a certain very select group of people—hedge fund and private equity managers—to collect their pay at a much lower tax rate than many Americans.
According to money-in-politics watchdog OpenSecrets, the #private #equity industry spent $16.5 million #lobbying Congress last year.
All told, 415 of 435 members of the House and nearly every senator took money from the industry in the runup to the last election—including Congress’ five biggest private equity investors listed in the article