[smc-discuss] “Dangerous Ramifications” of Facebook lobbying

[Anivar Aravind]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>
wrote:

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> And clearly the question that linked Facebook’s lobbying efforts in India
> to “dangerous ramifications for policy-making in India” was this: should a
> large, powerful private corporation be allowed to use its customer base to
> overwhelm regulators and hijack due process for its own strategic goals?
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> https://medium.com/@r0h1n/dangerous-ramifications-3bf9490d56a0#.u8g07v6jw
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There is a real example from past , M$ Used NGOS with associations with
Miocrodoft and Melinda and Gates foundation to lobby for OOCML in india

https://web.archive.org/web/20130602154328/http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/OpenStandards/MsNgoLobby
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