Tech Firms and Lobbyists: Now Intertwined, but Not Eager to Reveal It
24th September 2014
Since the Microsoft ‘antitrust’ case of 1998, tech firms have had their noses rubbed in the economic fact of modern life that politicians and bureaucrats can (and will) destroy your business unless allowed to wet their beaks. Typically this is done through campaign contributions to the proper pullers of strings, participation in the revolving door between Washington and the two Left Coasts, and making the correct ‘diversity’ and ‘green’ noises for consumption by low-information voters.