SOMO’s ‘Big Tech Lobby Playbook’ series explores the tools and tactics of Big Tech’s global influence over law and policymaking.
Big Tech has taken corporate lobbying to a whole new level. These companies have an influence that even Big Tobacco and Big Oil could only dream of. The tech giants have bottomless pockets and a powerful playbook they deploy to influence and shape laws all around the world. The strategies set out in the ‘Big Tech Lobby Playbook’ are not unique to Big Tech, but they are being employed in ways that are distinctive to the tech giants. These companies don’t just engage with lawmakers and policy processes – they shape the very environment in which laws are imagined and debated. At the heart of this is the sheer extent of these firms’ monopoly power. Big Tech firms that control the digital infrastructure of today’s societies have not been afraid to weaponise it to advance their policy agendas. Having allowed companies to gain such market dominance, governments now find themselves hostages to it. This sets their playbook apart from standard corporate lobbying. The success of their lobby playbook is allowing these companies to rewrite the democratic rulebook so that the public interest always comes second to corporate profit.
SOMO’s ‘Big Tech Lobby Playbook’ series explores the tools and tactics of Big Tech’s global influence over law and policymaking.
Big Tech has taken corporate lobbying to a whole new level. These companies have an influence that even Big Tobacco and Big Oil could only dream of. The tech giants have bottomless pockets and a powerful playbook they deploy to influence and shape laws all around the world. The strategies set out in the ‘Big Tech Lobby Playbook’ are not unique to Big Tech, but they are being employed in ways that are distinctive to the tech giants. These companies don’t just engage with lawmakers and policy processes – they shape the very environment in which laws are imagined and debated. At the heart of this is the sheer extent of these firms’ monopoly power. Big Tech firms that control the digital infrastructure of today’s societies have not been afraid to weaponise it to advance their policy agendas. Having allowed companies to gain such market dominance, governments now find themselves hostages to it. This sets their playbook apart from standard corporate lobbying. The success of their lobby playbook is allowing these companies to rewrite the democratic rulebook so that the public interest always comes second to corporate profit.
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