Saturday, April 02, 2022

Buying fake-support!-----CNBC: Google and Amazon Bankrolled a 'Small Business' Astroturf Group to Lobby Against Big Tech Oversight

CNBC: Google and Amazon Bankrolled a 'Small Business' Astroturf Group to Lobby Against Big Tech Oversight
"A recent report by CNBC details how Google and Amazon financed a small business owner advocacy group in order to lobby against Big Tech regulation.
CNBC reports that tech giants Amazon and Google are reportedly behind the funding of the Connected Commerce Council (3C), a group that claims to be a grassroots movement representing small business owners.
...“Big Tech knows that voters and their representatives aren’t hugely sympathetic toward the complaints of trillion-dollar corporations, so they’ve decided to paint small businesses as the real victims of antitrust legislation,” said Michelle Kuppersmith, executive director of the Campaign for Accountability...Read all.

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