Victory: Amazon lobbyists to be banned from European Parliament - UNI Europa
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Weeks after Amazon workers, trade unions and civil society allies supported Member of the European Parliament’s demand for an Amazon ban from European institutions, the European Parliament will be withdrawing Amazon’s lobbying badges. As a result, the company will effectively be barred from lobbying inside its premises. This is only the second time in the
  • TxzK
    99•7 months ago

    Can we ban all corporate lobbying? It’s bribing with extra steps

    • 520
      33•7 months ago

      Lobbying in the EU is not the same as lobbying in the US. In the EU, lobbying is simply being an advocate group that is consulted whenever issues in their domain arise, with everyone understanding their partiality.

      • @[email protected]
        42•7 months ago

        While I agree with the statement that lobbyists are not inherently evil, I will call this out as an overly optimistic statement.

        We have cases like Ylva Johannson trying to enforce the use of AI detection algorithms for CSAM after being thoroughly consulted by Thorn, a company that sells such algorithms (who spent $24M on this). Meanwhile, she never met with digital rights lobbyists despite them repeatedly asking for a meeting.

          • 520
            13•7 months ago

            And she got arrested and stripped of her power because of it. In the US that’s just normal business and perfectly legal.

            • IWantToFuckSpez
              1•7 months ago

              She’s the one that got caught. She’s definitely not the only one in parliament accepting bribes.

              • 520
                2•7 months ago

                But the point is she got caught and punished. That wouldn’t happen in USA because it is totally legal there.

        • 520
          3•7 months ago

          Of course. I’m not saying it’s perfect, I’m just saying this is how things are supposed to work as opposed to the legalised bribery in the US.

        • @[email protected]
          1•7 months ago

          Then you replace the politicians instead of making it illegal for them to consult other people.

      • TxzK
        6•7 months ago

        Oh well that sounds a lot better. In fact better than letting old, out of touch politicians who understand nothing about the issue make all the decisions.

      • @[email protected]
        -1•7 months ago

        That’s what it’s supposed to be in the US, too.
        It’ll just take some time until the money captures them.