Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok
Meta Shatters Lobbying Record as House Passes TikTok Ban: Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor TikTok
A new disclosure reveals Instagram owner Meta spent more than ever on lobbing Congress and the White House as legislation to potentially ban its competitor, TikTok, was drawn up and passed.
Sad trombone.
“lobbing”
is this a trusted outlet? at least we can be pretty sure a human wrote it ha ha ha
I would also like to lob Congress.
please give me the lobbing machine 🙏
Well it is called readsludge.com
right?!? lol
i know mbfc isnt the best but: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sludge/
Bias Rating: LEFT Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: USA MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
…so…. maybe? maybe its fine idk
Well we knew it had to be something. I mean most of Congress is too old to know what a tik tok is.
They’re just too old for everything. They’re almost part of ancient history.
Tic Tac Toe!
Media headlines that use the word lobbying probably do it so that people don't take up arms. If they were to instead call it bribery, I think a lot more people would take issue with the whole process.
they can't really do that because that would be defamation and they would be sued for it. Bribery is a crime and while it is effectively the same as lobbying from our perspective, one is legal and one is not and a media outlet can't just accuse someone of a crime without evidence unless they want to close up shop
When in practice Corruption is not investigated or prosecuted, nobody ever gets convicted of Corruption, the Media can't talk about Corruption as it would otherwise be defamation, hence the country has no Corruption.
I haven't lived in the US but I lived in the UK and this was exactly how Britain had "no Corruption".
How about
legal briberylobbying
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!!! \s
Shit, we should also ban insta, fb, and google places while we’re at it.
Don't tempt me with a good time.
Actually, be very tempted please! Get 'm!
Just force them to use open standards and for it to be easy for people to move platform whilst keeping all the connections to their profile: the power of such social media entities is that people are locked-in because if they move they lose the connections of both followers and those they follow, which often means family and friends.
Basically a solution similar to that adopted in Europe for phone numbers - that you can take your number with you when you move providers - would reduced social media companies down to "just a pipe for social media connectivity" which would ultimatelly kill those with the worst practices given that the barrier to entry to be a "social media provider" is way lower than to be a fixed line telephony provider.
We are on a social network platform too?
Not really. It's just a fancy forum.
Social network platforms have corporate controlled algorithms designed to maximize addiction. At the very least, you would need a "friend" system and who the fuck follows each other on here? When I was using reddit, one person followed me and it was a bot.
One where you can use any server and client you wish, as long as it implements the same freely-available spec. You can probably access the source code of the server and client you’re using.
As with many things: the problem is not the technology itself, but the terms that capital owners demand we accept in order to use it.
As if the US government could understand this platform. It will be a shame to lose lemmy.world though
The 8200 division at Meta working overtime
😂
The reason we have a Chinese competitor that we cannot directly control is that Meta is buying up every promising US platform and shutting it down. Or just trying to copy it so that the competitor does not get enough users
As if anti-trust law doesn't exist. It is crazy to me nowadays, most tech startup's goal from the very start is to sale to a big tech competitor. This certainly should have anti-trust implications.
"Something something FTC unconstitutional, not even sarcastically" - these oligarchs
Nope. The legal system is pay to win.
So what does Zuck do when Trump uses an exec order to stay the ban and pushes Republicans to reverse it?
Algorithmically quell his own cybernetic rage.
If Zuck gives Trump more money then why would he? Probably would just allow Meta to buy it or something dumb like that.
Trumps just gonna keep him hanging hoping he’s in the inner circle and bleeding him dry in the process.
Why does everyone think Trumps going to allow Tiktok. He doesn't like China, and Musk is going to push him to ban it so he can buy it.
You're partially right. Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok because "China."
However, the platform's influence on younger voters supposedly helped him to win the election, so he now favors it.
No surprise that Trump's personal needs are far more important than real US security.
ByteDance has a lot of money. Trump likes money. Trump's only leverage over ByteDance is allowing TikTok, so he'll do that in exchange for money
Zuckerberg and Meta are much more centralized in the US, which gives Trump far more options in terms of what he can offer them. Trump will give Zuckerberg something else to placate him. Probably lots of cheap H-1B labor
Well I just hope they reverse the whole bill, so we can re-appropriate the tax money back we sent to aid Israel
Headlines that basically say the same shit twice really are swell.
If you want to produce the same shit twice, just use a colon.
I think this was less about lobbying and more about bogeyman of China.
AIPAC lobbying also
I don't know why I do this to myself, but I read through Meta's disclosure
Every single lobbyist I looked at worked in DC before becoming a lobbyist. I knew it happened a lot, but it's really depressing to see
Also, why do these disclosures not require companies to specify how the money was spent? There are only ~20 different lobbyists mentioned, and Meta spent 7.6M in a single quarter
Yes, companies hiring people in politics or with government connections is a very normal thing
$7.6 million, pocket change to these chumps. Up the ante!