Tech firms are spending more than ever on #lobbying the #EU amid mounting opposition to the bloc’s digital rules, according to @corporateeurope.

The 733 digital #industry groups registered in #Brussels now spend €151 million a year pushing their interests, up from €113 million 2 years ago.

Meta is the overall largest lobby spender in the EU (€10 million).

There are now an estimated 890 lobbyists working to shape the tech agenda, up from 699 in 2023.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

Tech firms are spending more than ever on #lobbying the #EU amid mounting opposition to the bloc’s digital rules, according to @corporateeurope.

The 733 digital #industry groups registered in #Brussels now spend €151 million a year pushing their interests, up from €113 million 2 years ago.

Meta is the overall largest lobby spender in the EU (€10 million).

There are now an estimated 890 lobbyists working to shape the tech agenda, up from 699 in 2023.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

"Alright, I’ve officially spent too much time reading Trump’s 28-page AI Action Plan, his three new AI executive orders, listening to his speech on the subject, and reading coverage of the event. I’ll put it bluntly: The vibes are bad. Worse than I expected, somehow.

Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke.

More specifically, the plan aims to further deregulate the tech industry, penalize US states that pass AI laws, speed adoption of AI in the federal government and beyond, fast-track data center development, fast-track nuclear and fossil fuel power to run them, move to limit China’s influence in AI, and restrict speech in AI and the frameworks governing them by making terms like diversity, inclusion, misinformation, and climate change forbidden. There’s also a section on American workers that’s presented as protecting them from AI, but in reality seeks to give employers more power over them. It all portends a much darker future than I thought we’d see in this thing."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-action-plan-is-a-blueprint

#USA#Trump#AI#GenerativeAI#AIActionPlan#BigTech #AIPolicy#Lobbying#Plutocracy

so law is being framed and pushed by a lobby company on behalf of foreign Internet companies by the Government who cannot compute 😫

#lobbying / #canberra / #auspol <https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-07/59_-_digital_industry_group_inc._digi.pdf>