Tech Firms Have Had Enough Politics

from the spend-that-lobbying-money-elsewhere dept

Remember all that talk a few years back about how tech companies had always ignored Washington DC, and how it was going to come back to haunt them (such as it was starting to do to Microsoft). Well, tech companies apparently took notice and started increasing their lobbying expenditures. Of course, that was easy when everyone had plenty of stock funny money to spend. Nowadays, tech companies are pulling back from lobbying on DC.


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