Revolving doors go round and round, round and round, round and round…
#institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EU #BigTech #Meta https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/113493491174499463
Former #Meta head of public policy Aura Salla is coming back to Brussels as an MEP. We'll closely observe if she represents the public interest in the European Parliament or not and how often she meets her former colleagues. Lobby meetings now need to be disclosed by all MEPs. #revolvingdoors #lobbying #transparency
Post election time: in the coming weeks, we as lobby watchdogs will closely be watching outgoing & incoming MEPs, Commissioners & Commission officials to disclose possible conflicts of interest. Please reach out if you have any hints. @lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope #revolvingdoors
If you don’t understand:
- The profit motive.
- Slowly boiling frogs.
- Institutional corruption (the influence of corporate finance in political decision-making – i.e., lobbying and revolving doors).
You will keep getting surprised over and over gain by what corporations and the politicians bought by the corporations do.
Alarming new Politico report uncovers ‘revolving doors’ in the EIB’s highest echelons linked to the controversial expansion of the Budapest airport.
Ethics as PR (or the ‘Some Very Good People Work There!’ Fallacy)
https://ar.al/2021/05/08/ethics-as-pr-or-the-some-very-good-people-work-there-fallacy/
@RyunoKi just reminded me of this piece I wrote two years ago. It seems rather timely what with the news about Harvard and Meta, and, beyond tech, Cop28, etc.
Corporations: just let us regulate ourselves, it’ll be fine…
Also corporations: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/
Regulate the absolute living crap out of the these bastards. (But who’s going to when the folks who should be regulating are having drinks with them at the pub every evening and eyeing their next gigs at them?*)
* Did you know Google’s lobbying offices are literally round the corner from the European Parliament?
@gabrielberlin
Mir scheint dieser Ausgang wie so eine Drehtür, bei der die meisten den Moment verpassen und wieder am selben Ort reinkommen, wo sie rausgingen. #revolvingdoors
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The largest percentage of complaints were about #transparency and accountability (32%), incl #accesstodocuments
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