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

[Adam Peake]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:41 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the issue is whether or not the outcome is in the (general) public
> interest or rather serves narrow sectional (corporate) private interests.
>
> http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/22/local/la-me-att-20120422
>
> The US system appears skewed towards the latter and this is shocking and
> disturbing to those (including many in the US) who find this to be a form of
> corruption and as undermining democracy.
>
> Arguably, as in the recent WCIT, we are seeing an extension of these
> processes into the global Internet sphere, in this instance not to direct
> governance oversight and regulation but to prevent it altogether.
>


Arguably, in WCIT, how so?  (Intergovernmental process, partly funded
by private sector, most of the none treaty work --core work-- done by
non-governmental actors)


> This is not about your gran meeting with her MP to discuss the euthanasia or
> not, of feral cats.
>

Search for "cash for questions"

Adam



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> in 2012
>
> In message <51015DF8.6070803 at gmail.com>, at 18:14:48 on Thu, 24 Jan 2013,
> Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> writes
>
>>> Given that it's not democracy (in the Athenian sense), rather  it's
>>>"representative democracy"; what's the problem with people
>>>telling/reminding their representatives what views they should be
>>>representing for them?
>>
>>Nothing if one relies on formal equality between people and
>>corporations as the US Supreme (?) court found in Citizens United, that
>>has caused a flurry of concern amongst some segments of civil society...
>
> There are always going to be people more skilled at approaching their
> representatives than others.
>
> One of the things which I like about the UK's version of representative
> democracy is that anyone can get a local appointment[1] with their MP (often
> on a Friday afternoon or Saturday) irrespective of their individual
> "convening power".
>
> It's the latter which large corporations pay very large sums to achieve in
> the Capital (Monday to Thursday).
>
> [1] Whether they can be persuasive in that appointment is another thing.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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