"Cryptocurrency companies and investors have spent at least $149 million over the past four years to thwart tough regulation, elect new allies to Congress and defeat lawmakers seen as potential threats, a campaign that culminated this week with a House vote to soften federal oversight of the embattled industry."
Neue Folge im #TheDinerPodcast: Gesellschaft und KI: Wir sind völlig undvorbereitet auf die #Krise in der wir schon stecken. Im Gespräch mit @peterpur über generative #KI, Gesetzgebung und #Lobbying, was wir in der Schule lernen sollten, Lügen in Krisen, #Ästhetik und die stete Frage danach, was wir als #Gesellschaft überhaupt wollen. #AI#AIAct
🔴 À eux seuls, quatre dirigeants de la FNSEA, dont deux Bretons, cumulent 50 mandats. De l'Anses au Cese en passant par les innombrables instances agricoles, ces cumulards défendent partout la ligne du syndicat productiviste. Avec succès !
Une enquête menée dans le cadre d'une collaboration européenne avec Lighthouse Reports.
The Palestinian genocide has exposed so many things. You may not care about it, but the issues arising from it in : #surveillance , #corruption, #lobbying, #internationallaw, #racism, etc. etc. will come to affect you— one way or another.
#Uber#RideHailing#GigEconomy#BigTech#Lobbying#SiliconValley: "Meanwhile, Uber has a long record of using deceptive actions to avoid regulatory oversight, most notably through a program called Greyball. In Boston, Las Vegas, and a host of European cities, it deployed a mock version of its app on the phones of unfriendly city officials to make it falsely appear that the service was not available. In some cities, it investigated passengers’ credit card accounts to help determine if they were government officials.
Where state legislatures or courts do not deliver for Uber, it turns to the ballot box. In 2019 California passed a law making companies responsible for proving that their workers were independent contractors, which opened the door to reclassifying them as employees. Uber and other gig economy companies responded by pouring $220 million into a ballot initiative, Proposition 22, which it billed as a defense of drivers’ rights. “Protecting the ability of Californians to work as independent contractors throughout the state using app-based rideshare and delivery platforms,” it stressed, “is necessary so people can continue to choose which jobs they take, to work as often or as little as they like, and to work with multiple platforms or companies.” In fact the proposition would exempt app-based workers from nearly all labor protections, including paid sick leave, retirement benefits, and workers compensation. It passed, though a group of drivers have contested its legality in the California Supreme Court. Its success is still a troubling sign of Uber’s political clout. In Massachusetts, Uber, Instacart, and Lyft raised $43 million in 2022—and $7 million so far this year—for copycat ballot initiatives."
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reports that Commission President von der Leyen has at several occasions addressed the European Horse Network (EHN), but these meetings are missing in VDL’s public calendar and her log of meetings with #lobbyists 🤔
The #oil🛢️industry has fought against govt support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting #FossilFuel business model https://buff.ly/3IszECq#lobbying
Well, in the rush to find people with Labour party 'expertise' it seems lobbying firs are considering salaries of up to £200k...
And, unsurprisingly people with Tory party experience have found not only is the glut in the market (as they all hurriedly jump ship), few lobbying firms thing, for now, its worth employing them.
Well, the money-go-round of the Westminster village won't stop....
The #oil🛢️ industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model https://buff.ly/3IszECq#lobbying
"Lobbyists on both sides of the Atlantic argued that government subsidies for clean technologies distorted free markets. Activists say their position is “dishonest” because the oil industry benefits from tax credits and other financial help from governments, and pays for only a fraction of the damage its fuels do to people and the planet... they knew renewable energy was such a threat to their industry that they had to lobby policymakers to rig the market against cleaner and cheaper technology to protect profits" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/08/oil-industry-has-sought-to-block-state-backing-for-green-tech-since-1960s #lobbying#disinformation#BeyondFossilFuels
You'll be unsurprised that as the Labour Party gets nearer power, so industry lobbyists are gaining ground in influencing policy & approaches adopted by the party... this @openDemocracy investigative report is an eye-opening, if depressing confirmation that increasingly the Labour Party is losing contact with its historical roots.
For many here this will confirm the suspicion that the Labour Party is now ever safer for the rich elite in London!
The #ConservativePartnershipInstitute (#CPI) has become a breeding ground for the next generation of #Trump loyalists & an incubator for policies he might pursue. Its fast growth is raising questions.
Donald Trump is the #oil & #gas industry’s undisputed top pick for the 🇺🇸 Republican presidential nomination as energy sector donors shower his candidacy with nearly 10x the amount of $ they gave challenger Nikki Haley https://buff.ly/49Ny2Ps#lobbying