Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power

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Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power
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Lobbying should be fucking banned.

It is far more likely that remarks against lobbying will be banned, because someone would lobby for that.

It's still a useful mechanic to be able to influence government policy in between elections. Not all lobbying is pushing for this dystopian stuff, this is just what ends up in the news.

In Canada anyone can review federal and provincial lobbying activity. Eg:

https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntSmmrySrch?return=true&time=1695867498006

I'm guessing there is something like that for the US.

Every form of corruption is a useful mechanic to be able to influence government policy between elections.

Vote in representatives that will ban it.

In theory yes, but in practice extremely rich lobbyists will buy up enough votes to not ban it. Sorry, I mean "successfully lobby against it legally".