“They can leverage Trump’s America First policies, framing EU digital laws as foreign extortion, censorship or discrimination.”
“They can leverage Trump’s America First policies, framing EU digital laws as foreign extortion, censorship or discrimination.”
How much faith does anyone have in the EU Commission?
I have very little.
The very fact that these companies are allowed ‘privileged access’ to the commission disgusts me.
Lobbying in all of it’s forms should be banned, it 100% goes against our supposed democracy.
Lobbying I itself is not necessarily a bad thing. Legislator’s often need the input (or at least hear the arguments) from industry to make better laws.
But I agree with you that it often results in the industry writing the laws…