@kiwu@twtxt.net jump on IRC and tell us! Server irc.mills.io, on 6697 (TLS), join #lobby, then private message (I am quark). :-P

Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by R … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump Is Ready for Fight Night. So Are Donors
The UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn is the president’s birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza. ⌘ Read more

N’en déplaise à Elon Musk, nous ne vivrons pas sur Mars
Mars serait l’avenir de l’espèce humaine, affirment certains. Porté par des entrepreneurs, des lobbies et des ambitions nationales, ce récit a en fait tout d’un mythe. ⌘ Read more

Thoughts on the lobbying debate
Being a kindly soul who has spent many years around Wellington in journalism, public relations and then journalism again, twice, my first reaction to last week’s news of unrecorded meetings and documents between corporate lobbyists and the Prime Minister’s Office left me cold.

People forget to write things down that they ought to. ⌘ Read more

Le lobby des renouvelables mobilisé contre le démontage de la transition énergétique
À Hamm, les grandes organisations environnementales s’organisent pour contrer le retour du gaz et les offensives de la ministre de l’économie et de l’énergie contre les énergies renouvelables. Les Länder ainsi qu’une partie du monde économique emboîtent le pas. ⌘ Read more

Lobby firm Silvereye files lawsuit against Gillies Group over $3.49m demand
Wellington lobby firm Silvereye has filed a fresh lawsuit against property developer Gillies Group over a claimed $3.49 million success fee related to a Kāinga Ora deal.

Silvereye, headed by Jo Coughlan and Conor English, has continued to pursue the million-dollar fee after the High Court in Wellington [set aside a statutory demand](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/po … ⌘ Read more

Assauts contre l’audiovisuel public: la HATVP se penche sur le lobbying de Lagardère
La Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique cherche à vérifier si le groupe contrôlé par Vincent Bolloré a dissimulé ses tentatives d’influencer la commission d’enquête. Les représentants du «JDD» et d’Europe 1 avaient envoyé des questions aux députés dans le but d’alimenter l’offensive contre les médias publics. ⌘ Read more

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements For AI Sneakily Backed By OpenAI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: OpenAI hasn’t been shy about spending money lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with child safety advocacy groups, the company has apparently decided it’s best to stay in the shadows – even if it means hiding from the people ac … ⌘ Read more

EU Cloud Lobby Asks Regulator To Block VMware From Terminating Partner Program
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal … ⌘ Read more

CM quer transparência, dá exemplos de como a lei do lobby é insuficiente, fico sem perceber muito bem do que acha desta nova lei em concreto (se vai no bom caminho mas não chega como defendem quase todos os outros, ou se é má porque legaliza o tráfico de influências, como defende AF). A resposta é boa porque dá a opinião genérica sobre o tema, e julgo que se ainda não foi promulugada, será ainda por Marcelo, pelo que não precisa de se pronunciar sobre esta redação em particular, mas não se perdia nada em saber-se mais claramente… a falta de clareza pode derivar do facto da resposta ter derivado - ao criticar as promiscuidades, CM dá o exemplo do financiamento do Chega, que obviamente é um trigger ao AV, e começa uma troca de criticas entre AV e CM sobre CH e BE (o AV até atira para o PCP também), com CM a dizer verdades, AV a dizer mentiras (sem surpresas, portanto).

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1. a nova lei do lobbying é suficiente? - todos acham que a transparência que a nova lei traz é um passo no sentido certo mas não suficiente, à excepção de AF (e talvez CM?). Mas MM distingue transparência de devassa, insinuação e suspeita - os últimos três degradando a democracia (diz que não é uma crítica directa a nenhum dos outros candidatos, mas sabemos bem a quem cabe o barrete). AV critica a posição do PCP sobre a nova lei do lobbying. AF diz que não tem vergonha de ser do PCP, e tem a mesma posição do partido: acha que a lei o que faz é legalizar o tráfico de influências, o problema têm sido as opções políticas, que devem ser mais escrutinadas.
   

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Senators Count the Shady Ways Data Centers Pass Energy Costs On To Americans
U.S. senators are probing whether Big Tech data centers are driving up local electricity bills by socializing grid upgrade costs onto residents. Some of the tactics they’re using include NDAs, shell companies, and lobbying. Ars Technica reports: In letters (PDF) to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ch … ⌘ Read more

I just completed “Lobby” - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3 – Again, I’m doing this in mu, a Go(ish) / Python(ish) dynamic langugage that I had to design and build first which has very few builtins and only a handful of types (ints, no flots). 🤣

Arizona City Rejects Data Center After Lobbying Push
Chandler, Arizona unanimously rejected a proposed AI data center despite heavy lobbying from Big Tech interests and former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Politico reports: The Chandler City Council last night voted down a request by a New York developer to rezone land to build a data center and business complex. The local battle escalated in October after Sinema showed up at a pla … ⌘ Read more

Defense Contractors Lobby To Kill Military Right-to-Repair, Push Pay-Per-Use Data Model
A bipartisan right-to-repair provision that would let the U.S. military fix its own equipment faces a serious threat from defense industry lobbyists who want to replace it with a pay-per-use model for accessing repair information. A source familiar with negotiations told The Verge that there are signifi … ⌘ Read more

Lobby du tout-électrique, PwC, Jean Tirole : dépenses pour la croissance
Un article de Henry Bonner Et voilà, c’est fait : Fitch abaisse la note de la dette de la France… Et en dépit de l’envolée des taux d’intérêt, le gouvernement continue les dépenses. Comme l’échec du Premier ministre en France, la « défaite » du parti de M. Milei en Argentine dans une élection locale ce mois-ci montre […] ⌘ Read more

Someone ABANDONED their pet cat in our hotel lobby (Maryland) ⌘ Read more

Tech execs are pushing Trump to build ‘Freedom Cities’ run by corporations
A new lobbying group, dubbed the Freedom Cities Coalition, wants to convince President Trump and Congress to authorize the creation of new special development zones within the U.S. These zones would allow wealthy investors to write their own laws and set up their own governance structures which would be corporately controlled and wouldn’t involve a traditional bureaucracy. The new zone … ⌘ Read more

(#7mxlpza) @movq@movq that used to be me until I lobbied to have fiber optic to the premise
@movq @www.uninformativ.de that used to be me until I lobbied to have fiber optic to the premise ⌘ Read more

En este país llamado España: Las relaciones de Zapatero con China
Dieter comenta la noticia sobre el lobby del expresidente para captar dinero con un inversor chino, y la petición de la juez del caso de David Sánchez ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MoneroTalk #339: Monero’s Place in Policy & Regulation in 2025

This episode is a recording of an X Spaces discussion with Douglas Tuman, John Bush, Stoic.XMR, BawdyAnarchist, and others about whether or not the Monero community should engage in political activism to push for pro-privacy, pro-Monero policies in the U.S. The participants debated the merits of lobbying for regulatory clarity versus focusing purely on grassroots, opt-out strategies that avoid government intervention altogether.

Links:

• [https://redirect.i … ⌘ Read more

** In reply to: The politics of accessibility – Brian DeConinck **
In reply to: The politics of accessibility – Brian DeConinck

A devastating perfect blog post.

The core concept of digital accessibility is that everyone, including people with disabilities, should be able to access information and accomplish tasks via computer independently.

Continuing later,

This is an intensely political statement, backed by decades of protests and lobbying and litigation. … ⌘ Read more

Buoyed by Trump win, US pro-crypto lobby group opens Australian outpost
‘Stand With Crypto’, a lobby group backed by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, is hoping to capitalise on a wave of momentum from Donald Trump’s decisive US election win. ⌘ Read more

Assistant Treasurer ‘cosied up to banks’, tech giants say
Technology lobby group DIGI says there has been an “extraordinary” level of engagement between Stephen Jones and Australia’s banks on new anti-scam laws. ⌘ Read more

‘Shameful’: Tech Council facing questions over Richard White saga
The powerful lobby group took nearly a week to deal with serious allegations of misconduct. ⌘ Read more

Does Australia Have An Israel Lobby? ⌘ Read more

L’impossible recyclage du plastique
Très régulièrement, à la faveur d’une campagne de propag… pardon de conscientisation par l’une ou l’autre organisation de lobbying non gouvernemental, on découvre que l’Humanité rejette une quantité ahurissante de plastique dans la nature, que c’est une catastrophe et que nous allons tous mourir, ce qui explique au passage les lois de plus en plus […] ⌘ Read more

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RT by @mind_booster: Two ‘discourses of climate delay’ which are super prevalent right now
1⃣ “The solution is nuclear”. The Swiss Govt is pushing this one, via Energy, Climate & Transport Minister Rösti (also a fossil fuel lobbyist and climate denier) & lobby groups are advertising with billboards.
Two ‘discourses of climate delay’ which are super prevalent right now

1⃣ “The solution is nuclear”. The Swiss Govt is pushing this one, via Energy, Climate & Transport Minister Rösti (also a fossil fuel lobbyi … ⌘ Read more

**“The rise of the oil and gas lobby is particularly notable at COP27, where the host country itself announced a deal to sell gas to Europe in return for replacing old thermal power plants with cleaner energy.”

Important when criticizing this to remember that the EU also has blame**
“The rise of the oil and gas lobby is particularly notable at COP27, where the host country itself announced a deal to sell gas to Europe in return for replacing old thermal power plants with cleaner energy.”

Important when critic … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: The European Parliament has begun its discussions about corporations obligations to protect human rights and prevent environmental destruction in their value chains. Problem: a weak proposal due to pressure from lobby groups. 5 things the EP must fix: href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23HoldBizAccountable”>#HoldBizAccountable**
The European Parliament has begun its discussions about corporations obligations to protect human rights and prevent environmental destruction in their value chains. Problem: a weak proposal due to pressure from lobb … ⌘ Read more

Americans have right to carry guns in public, says US Supreme Court in landmark decision
The decision was a stunning victory for the National Rifle Association gun lobby group, which brought the case along with two New York men who had been denied gun permits. ⌘ Read more

China’s coronavirus controls top concern for European firms, who may ‘vote with their feet’ if uncertainty persists
Beijing’s stringent approach to containing Omicron outbreaks is the biggest challenge for European businesses in China for the second year running, a new survey by a business lobby shows. ⌘ Read more

Will Indonesia’s Jokowi start his own political party to cement his legacy?
The president’s lobby group Projo says it may register as a political party as talk swirls of officials mulling a constitutional change to allow third terms. ⌘ Read more

Taiwan admits paying American lobbyists to help establish closer US ties amid rising pressure from Beijing
Island’s foreign ministry says it hired PR firms to help US government and others ‘have a better understanding of Taiwan’, saying lobbying transparency is key. ⌘ Read more

Lobbying Fortress Europe | #frontexfiles ⌘ Read more…

/lobby xoka!

How Marketing and Lobbying Built Thanksgiving Traditions https://tedium.co/2018/11/20/thanksgiving-history-corporate-roots/

eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq

Get Yourself A Treat https://tedium.co/2017/08/15/lets-all-go-lobby-movie-snipe-advertising/