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- 21:35, 14 February 2022 Portable Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) (hist | edit) [1,683 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Portable Rechargeable Battery Association Counted Apple And Amazon As Members. ** PRBA has not registered federal lobbying activity since 2013. ** PRBA hosted annual member regulatory meetings, including one in November 2020 that included Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency officials as featured speakers, effectively giving its members direct access. ** PRBA submitted public comments to federal regulatory bodies. ** PRBA's Executive Directo...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:34, 14 February 2022 Internet Association (hist | edit) [749 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google, Facebook, And Amazon Were Members Of Internet Association. ** Amazon disclosed it contributed $30,000 To Internet Association's California PAC in 2020. ** Internet Association reported spending more than $13.9 million in federal lobbying over a 7-year period between 2013 – 2020. ** Internet Association alleged attempts to regulate the sharing economy – like Amazon Flex – were a tactic by "legacy corporations" to "stifle" the competition.") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:34, 14 February 2022 Developers Alliance (hist | edit) [1,482 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Facebook And Google Were Members Of The Developers Alliance, Which Claimed To Represent Some 70,000 App Developers. ** Developers Alliance spent $1,018,100 on federal lobbying between 2013 – 2020. $125,000 of that spending came in 2019 – 2020. * Developers Alliance argued that traditional market risks were irrelevant in digital platform competition and that consumers benefit from a "functioning market" in which Apps were channeled into limited, controlled platform...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:33, 14 February 2022 Consumer Technology Association (CTA) (hist | edit) [823 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Counted All Four – Amazon, Facebook, Apple, And Alphabet (Google) As Members. ** CTA spent $10,370,000 on federal lobbying in 2019 – 2020 alone. ** CTA fought Right to Repair laws that were under consideration in 25 state legislatures. Right to Repair proposals required tech manufacturers to provide independent repair shops access to parts and schematics to fix devices like computers and phones. *** CTA argued such policies thr...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:30, 14 February 2022 NetChoice (hist | edit) [1,268 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* NetChoice Attacked Lawsuits That Directly And Indirectly Threatened Organization Member Google ** NetChoice aggressively defended Apple's app store business model, a business model that mirrored organization member Google's app store. *** Google is a member of NetChoice. *** NetChoice aggressively defended Apple's app store business model. NetChoice Vice President described the apple app store as "an innovative ecosystem that helped create the hypercompetitive app econ...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:29, 14 February 2022 Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) (hist | edit) [1,420 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Apple, Amazon, And Google Were Members Of Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), A Trade Association That Spent Millions In Federal Lobbying. ** In 7 years, the Association reported $6,720,000 in lobbying costs -- $1,120,000 of that came in just 2020. ** ETA reported lobbying on H.R. 4813 (Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act), which sought to bar Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon from providing banking services. ** ETAPAC contributed $96,300 to Federal House and Sen...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:29, 14 February 2022 ACT - the App Association (hist | edit) [1,148 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Apple Funded ACT Pushed Apple's Agenda, Causing An Alternative App Developer Association To Be Created Specifically To Avoid The Conflict Of Interest ** Apple funded the ACT- The App Association. ** ACT attacked the Supreme Court's decision on Apple versus Pepper, taking Apple's side in the case. *** ACT took Apple's side in the Supreme Court decision Apple versus Pepper, arguing the decision "robbed developers of their autonomy and independence by categorizing them as...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:28, 14 February 2022 TechNet (hist | edit) [1,277 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* TechNet Functioned As A "Political Shield" For Members, Including Google And Apple, To Push Their Agenda ** TechNet is a trade association for technology CEOs and executives, including Google and Apple. ** TechNet held annual lobbying conferences so members, including Google and Apple, could push their agenda on politicians. ** Wired on TechNet: "Tech's most powerful advocacy group." ** Wired: TechNet "has grown to become the valley's strongest fundraising network and...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:54, 11 February 2022 Google and Consumers (hist | edit) [1,297 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " YouTube and YouTube Kids * Wojcicki and YouTube have faced years of criticism for failing to protect kids. Two months after the 2015 launch of YouTube Kids, a platform marketed as kid appropriate, advocates complained to the FTC that the platform contained sexual content, promotions of alcohol, and illegal ads. * In 2017, YouTube faced complaints of violent content on YouTube Kids and exploitative content on its main platform. In 2019, despite promises from YouTube to...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:53, 11 February 2022 Google and Small Businesses (hist | edit) [698 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google uses its monopoly to serve ads and its own content, gradually increasing the cost of ads and making them unaffordable to small businesses, whose search results suffer. Additionally, fake listings from Google Maps have made it harder to find legitimate small businesses. * Facebook, Instagram, and Google’s YouTube have created arbitrary and discriminatory standards around sexuality and sexual content. This has led to LGBTQ accounts on YouTube being demonetized a...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:38, 11 February 2022 Google and Koch Connections (hist | edit) [1,629 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google and Koch entities, mainly the Charles Koch Foundation, fund many of the same institutions. ** In 2020, Google listed itself as being a member of 28 different policy organizations that have also received Koch funding. ** Many of these mutually funded institutions, including the Buckeye Institute, the Federalist Society, and Taxpayers Protection Alliance, have taken far-right stances. ** Google has also previously listed itself as a member of 13 different policy...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:36, 11 February 2022 Google Disinformation (hist | edit) [2,911 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''YouTube spreads disinformation''' * YouTube’s algorithm put equal weight on climate science videos and climate denial videos and continued to serve up new climate misinformation to those who viewed similar content. Though Google took steps in October 2021 to demonetize climate denial YouTube videos, it still allowed climate denial content if it was presented as “public discourse.” * YouTube hosted thousands of videos that pushed vaccine misinformation, one of...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:35, 11 February 2022 Google and the Auto Industry (hist | edit) [808 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google had the most investment in autonomous vehicles of any Big Tech company. * VSI Labs said “no company has more in the game than Google (Waymo) with massive fleets, deployments, investments and software expertise.” * Google’s Android operating system was widespread in cars, with a Berylls analysis showing that within a few years of 2020, Google’s smartphone mirroring extended to some 80% of global car sales. * Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:35, 11 February 2022 Google and National Security (hist | edit) [1,537 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In December 2020, it was reported that Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt made personnel recommendations for the Defense and State Departments. '''Google and China''' * Google executives wanted a relationship and further cooperation with China, saying it was a “wonderful, innovative market.” Google Sundar Pichai said Google needed to “think hard” about whether it would continue to work in China and look at the “long term.” Jeff Dean, head of Google AI, ho...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:33, 11 February 2022 Google and Taxes (hist | edit) [770 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In 2017, Google Moved $22.7 Billion Through A Dutch Shell Company In Bermuda, Where Companies Pay No Income Tax, To Reduce Its Foreign Tax Bill. ** The Tax Strategy Was Phased Out Beginning In 2014 In Response To Pressure From The EU And The United States, Two Regions That Were Cheated By This Tax Advantage, Ending Google’s Tax Advantages In 2020. * 2010 To 2019: Google Paid $27.9 Billion In Income Taxes On $176.6 Billion In Profits After Taking In $647.7 Billion I...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:15, 11 February 2022 Facebook and Taxes (hist | edit) [913 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Facebook Avoided Paying Taxes by Shifting the Rights to It Online Platform and Marketing Intangibles to Ireland, a Tax Haven used by other Big Tech Companies. * Facebook Faced Scrutiny For Underpaying Taxes By $3 To $5 Billion By Undervaluing The Worth Of Its Intellectual Property When Transferring It To Ireland. The Institute On Taxation And Economic Police Reported That Facebook “Led The Pack In Exploiting The Stock Option Loophole,” Which Allowed Companies To De...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:14, 11 February 2022 Facebook and National Security (hist | edit) [624 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* 75% of social media usage was through Facebook or one of its subsidiary platforms. Facebook and its subsidiaries accounted for 75% of all time spent on social media, with roughly two billion people interacting with their platform every day. Facebook’s monopoly in the social media space meant it had the personal data of nearly 2.8 billion people, which was more than a quarter of the world’s population. Because of their dominance of social media Facebook captured 50%...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:13, 11 February 2022 Facebook and Disinformation (hist | edit) [2,211 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Laura Edelson Said Her And Her Team Used Their Research To study Facebook’s “apparent amplification of partisan misinformation.” Edelson and her team found that Facebook users engaged with misinformation more than other kinds of information on the platform. The team’s findings led Edelson to believe we were “racing against the clock” to understand how disinformation spread on social media. Edelson called understanding how misinformation spread on social med...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:11, 11 February 2022 Facebook and Mental Health (hist | edit) [7,040 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "*RESEARCH CONSISTENTLY FOUND THAT FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL MEDIA USERS REPORTED LOWER WELL-BEING **A large body of literature linked Facebook use with detrimental outcomes such as decreased mental well-being. A meta study on scientific papers on social media’s influence on mental health found social media use was linked to increased levels of psychological distress, thoughts of self-harm and suicide and poor sleep. One in eight Facebook users reported that their use of the...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:09, 11 February 2022 Allowing Illegal Actions for Ads (hist | edit) [2,130 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "*Facebook did not take action against human trafficking groups that were on their platform despite being made aware of their presence. A Polish trafficking expert said that he had identified human trafficking on Facebook, but 18 months later there had been no implementation of systems to find and remove trafficking posts *Facebook in fact allowed the human traffickers to spend $152,000 on Facebook ads for massage parlors and deactivated a system that detected human traff...") Tag: Visual edit
