• Humanius@lemmy.world
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      Lobbying in itself is not the problem. Potential corruption and bribery are the problem.

      Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests and/or concerns to their representatives.
      That group could be a group of individuals or a business. A business lobbying the government could be as innocent as them informing the government that proposed legislation would make their business uncompetitive, leading to a potential loss of jobs and/or tax revenue.

      That said… I don’t particularly trust that Amazon’s lobbying efforts are all that innocent

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        Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests

        But in practice, it rarely happens without shady “deals” full of bribery and coercion.

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      id really like to make a separate forum which only allows “eu does a thing” im a bit over reading about things that might happen