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ClassicGamingWizzz said:
They need to defend trillion dolar company and the trash people in positions of power that is receiving money to help the teillion dolar company. One thing i would never dreamed of seeing on this site is walls of text defending lobbying. |
Show me where Maria Cantwell has received money from Microsoft to go against Sony, I'll wait but I think I'll be waiting for a long time.
This same image was spread across ResetEra and caused that thread to be temporary locked even there because everyone misread it and went on a weirdo gamer witch-hunt against her based on a lie, excuse me for trying to push the facts, but if you want the thread locked that much then I suppose you can do that if you want.
There's a mistake being made here and it is the automatic assumption that all lobbying = an exchange of money, it doesn't. Lobbying simply means trying to seek to influence (a legislator/person in law) on an issue and doesn't have to mean money, in fact, it often doesn't. If you emailed your local legislator on an issue regularly then guess what, you'd be lobbying too.
And it isn't exclusive to America either, lobbying happens in UK and Europe. Both Microsoft and Sony have lobbied throughout the entire course of this acquisition, it becomes an ethical issue when money exchanges hands in order to make someone do something for you (that is called bribery), zero evidence that has happened for this particular issue though.
Complaining about sending Senators PACs is an entirely separate issue from this issue. If anyone is going to be upset that Microsoft sent money to a politician at some point throughout their entire career because you hate lobbying then that's fine but don't pretend like Sony doesn't do it either. There's no evidence of it happening here though for both sides on this particular issue.
US Senators "Deeply Concerned" About Microsoft's Proposed Deal To Buy Activision Blizzard - GameSpot
Cory Booker is in here and yet Microsoft did a PAC for him once before for $7,500...More than the amount any of these Senators speaking out on behalf of Microsoft have received from Microsoft during their entire careers which is funny. Y'all acting like a one time payment of $2,875 across a 31 year career is enough to get a politician to do anything, I could buy my own politician with that much!
Instead of the more logical explanation, that being that she is a Washington Senator and Microsoft is a Washington company who invests extremely heavily in...Washington. After the ABK acquisition was announced, Chuck Schumer asked Microsoft to invest in New York. Was he paid or is he simply trying to get something positive for his constituency?
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 15 April 2023
