It's good to see Facebook and Google working together on something positive. Probably going to end up doing more lobbying than advocacy. The same thing happened to AARP, so that's just an inevitably of American advocacy groups, I think.
Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association
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#12It's good to see Facebook and Google working together on something positive. Probably going to end up doing more lobbying than advocacy. The same thing happened to AARP, so that's just an inevitably of American advocacy groups, I think.
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#13This is a good thing, right?
It's certainly good in the "the enemy of our enemy is our friend" sense. Like other commenters have stated, it's also probably actually good in the short term.
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#14Nothing really specific yet on their platform regarding patent law. I'm pretty curious where they'll come out on that.
http://internetassociation.org/policy-platform/fostering-inn...
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#15This is a good thing, right?
it depends whether you care about the local or global maximum.
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#16Hallelujah!
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#17There is a need for such lobbying, but it should be led by individuals as citizens (an international asociation), not by companies with varying degrees of interests.
Still, it's better than nothing (no godaddy in the association, I see!). I do believe Google mostly fights for a free, uncensored web, though once a conflict arises, between shareholders and freedom, as with any company, shareholders always win.
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#18There is a need for such lobbying, but it should be led by individuals as citizens (an international asociation), not by companies with varying degrees of interests. Still, it's better than nothing (no godaddy in the association, I see!). I do believe Google mostly fights for a free, uncensored web, though once a conflict arises, between shareholders and freedom, as with any company, shareholders always win.
>"There is a need for such lobbying, but it should be led by individuals as citizens"
Agreed. Unfortunately, getting people to take uniform political action on anything is difficult, whereas companies can have a political mandate (and the money to support it).
P.S. If anyone wants to to learn a little bit about the lobbying industry, check out Turkmeniscam by Ken Silverstein. It's a short read, but eye-opening.
http://www.amazon.com/Turkmeniscam-Washington-Lobbyists-Stal...
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#19It's not just Facebook and Google.
"The IA’s founding membership consists of Google, Facebook, eBay, Rackspace, Zynga, IAC, TripAdvisor, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, salesforce.com, AOL, and Expedia."
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#20As long as they aren't lobbying against the FTC and privacy regulation, it sounds great.