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KiwiPete » 10 May 2014 9:23 am » wrote: Ever heard of lobbyists, its the other way around. Corporations send lobbyists to Washington to push politicians, usually in an attempt to bully or attack other corporations and gain preferential treatment.

Washington politicians force corporations to lobby.. See Microsoft..

In the late 1990s, Washington politicians filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft for packaging their windows operating system with a web browser. Imagine getting a computer in the late 1990s to browse the internet, but before you can browse the internet you have to download a browser from the internet.

Like all corporations, Microsoft started playing by Washington's rules, hiring a lobby and bribing politicians.