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

[McTim]

http://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html

This shows that Google is giving a good deal of support to CS entities.

That's probably a significant chunk of the 16 M.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:40 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, but still shocking and disturbing to many outside of the US and
> particularly since the US is so frequently held up as a model of democratic
> governance.
>
> M
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> Subject: Re: [governance] Facebook spent $4 million to lobby U.S. lawmakers
> in 2012
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
>> $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.
>
> right, not large at all:
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/business-lobbying-2012-fiscal-cliff
> _n_2539236.html
>
>
>
> --
> 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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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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