alt Hacker Newsbreak. up. Amazon.
break up Apple, Meta, MSFT, etc... while we're at it.
Or, keep it simpler - if a company passes a market cap of 1 trillion dollars, they must forgo lobbying and "government relations". if you're worth a trillion dollars or more, you don't need the government to hold your hand.
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twoodfin • today at 5:22 PM
Unfortunately for this project, the First Amendment puts the right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances” alongside freedoms of speech, the press, and religious exercise.
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s1artibartfast • today at 6:20 PM
It isnt just "hand holding", but legitimate information as well. X law will have y consequences. I think people seriously missunderstand what lobbying is.
A trillion? Why wouldn’t we set the bar at $0 - companies are not people, and allowing them to influence politics, at any size, corrupts democracy