Wudi@feddit.uk to politics @lemmy.world · 4 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 · 4 days agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squareRothe@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 days agoUS isn’t the whole of the West. This is strictly about US corruption.
minus-squareinkblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 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-up1·4 days agoThere is corruption everywhere at different levels obviously, but in the US it’s dangerously accelerating.
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.