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[They use Microsoft as an example]
Lobbyists beware: judge rules metadata is public record
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| The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the
| metadata attached to public records is
| itself a public record. Given the frequency
| with which metadata outs lobbyists' and
| corporations' efforts to mask their own
| contributions to public debates, this is a
| good thing.
|
| [...]
|
| The very next month, the tables were turned
| when the American Corn Grower's Association
| somewhat surprisingly threw its weight
| behind the idea that Congress should launch
| a hearing to look into the possible anti-
| trust implications of the Google-Yahoo
| advertising deal. CNET's Declan McCullagh
| took a look at the PDF letter that the group
| submitted to Congress, and found that it had
| been authored by a staffer at the LawMedia
| Group, a DC lobbying shop whose client list
| includes the anti-Google, anti-net
| neutrality National Cable and
| Telecommunications Association.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/lobbyists-beware-arizona-rules-metadata-is-public-record.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Who is your MP working for? A simple way to find outâ (and let us know!)
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| Newspapers occasionally report that votes
| have been declared âthree-line whipsâ by
| particular parties. Here are just a few
| reported examples:
|
| * In 2002, the Conservative party
| imposed a three-line whip forcing their
| MPs to oppose the adoption of children
| by gay couples.
| * In 2007, both Labour and the
| Conservatives imposed three-line whips
| in favour of a proposal to renew
| Britainâs nuclear weapons system,
| Trident.
| * In 2008, the Liberal Democrats imposed
| a three-line whip which instructed their
| MPs to abstain on a vote to ratify the
| EUâs Lisbon Treaty.
| * In 2009, Labour imposed a three line
| whip in favour of a vote to keep the
| full detail of MPs expenses secret from
| the public.
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http://blog.openupnow.org/2009/10/30/who-is-your-mp-working-for-a-simple-way-to-find-out-and-let-us-know/
Related:
Corn Farmers Against Google?
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| Only if they're planting in AstroTurf
|
| [...]
|
| How do you know the organization, and the op-ed, weren't created by LawMedia
| Group at the behest of some well-funded clients? If they did their jobs
| right, you don't know.
|
| Some of them have left digital fingerprints here and there, though, says
| Declan McCullagh, in a blockbuster of a report exposing the intellectual
| whoredom offered for various important issues. Shortly after Microsoft hired
| LawMedia, for example, legislators, national agencies, and news outlets
| received pointed complaints from coalitions of farmers, rural voters, and
| geeky Latinos about how Google's advertising deal with Yahoo would wreck
| everything.
|
| [...]
|
| Don't call them a PR firm or a lobbying firm though, Law Media â which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them tooâis a "public affairs firm" specializing
| in producing "remarkable coalitions" for anything one might need a coalition
for.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/14/corn-farmers-against-google
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