Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
Business needs barred from politics. Corporations are not people, and money is not speech. Separation of business and state.<p>They should not be able to lobby. This amounts to enabling corporations to curtail unionization efforts and other counter productive pursuits with collective public resources...turning the people's will against themselves. Power robbed. It is a fundamental, regressive flaw of our society.<p>If they want to weild political power then they should start a union that negotiates for the workers. The collective will of those workers would influence the political realm with their individual votes. Both in company matters and those of society.<p>I don't trust a secretive group of managers incentivized by short term gain making decisions for all of society. I don't think anyone does, yet here we are.<p>We purport to have a democratic society and then walk into a company that's organized like a bronze age city state and yield most of our freedoms and power to a cadre that does nothing but feed us shit and loot the company while trashing the environment and poisoning people.<p>By all means...keep it up.