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[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 35 points 8 months ago

Lobbying in and of itself isn't bad, it makes our politicians aware of issues and alternatives.

Unrestricted lobbying is the problem, I recently read that lobbyists from Amazon would no longer have access cards to the European parliament so they no longer could come and go as they liked.

I just wonder why lobbyists ever got that access in the first place...