[governance] Facebook spent $4 million to lobby U.S. lawmakers in 2012

[Adam Peake]

$4 million for a company of it's size, with legislation that would directly
effect its business always around doesn't seem that much <
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2012&indexType=s>

Not saying it's good, just that it doesn't seem large in the scheme of
things.

Adam


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:26 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> > What does that compare to the cost that well funded NGOs spend on
> lobbying?
>
> I don't know, but 16 Million is .032 % of 50 Billion (what Google
> spent on "lobbying") vs last year's revenue.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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