Wudi@feddit.uk to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoThe White House intervened to help Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundai Pichai avoid a Senate grilling.www.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down10
arrow-up1165arrow-down1external-linkThe White House intervened to help Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundai Pichai avoid a Senate grilling.www.politico.comWudi@feddit.uk to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squareinkblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down3·3 days agoWestern corruption gets blunter and less subtler… cannot say that I do not appreciate the Trump administration for this.
minus-squareRothe@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agoUS isn’t the whole of the West. This is strictly about US corruption.
minus-squareinkblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoReally? What do you call it when a company bribes a government to implement a law? Is that not corruption? Because that is what Meta did when the used billion to bribe the EU to push the age verification bill. Bribery is corruption. I know you westerners like to call it lobbying, but the true term remains bribery.
minus-squaretabarnaski@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoThere is corruption everywhere at different levels obviously, but in the US it’s dangerously accelerating.
Western corruption gets blunter and less subtler… cannot say that I do not appreciate the Trump administration for this.
US isn’t the whole of the West. This is strictly about US corruption.
Really? What do you call it when a company bribes a government to implement a law? Is that not corruption?
Because that is what Meta did when the used billion to bribe the EU to push the age verification bill.
Bribery is corruption. I know you westerners like to call it lobbying, but the true term remains bribery.
There is corruption everywhere at different levels obviously, but in the US it’s dangerously accelerating.