Anonymous ID: 9ba7c8 Jan. 1, 2025, 3:47 p.m. No.22273479   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3506

Here's a site some may find of interest re: H1B:

 

https://www.citizen.org/article/big-tech-lobbying-update/

 

He says it, right here:

“I can tell you [political spending] plays an important role. Not because the checks are big, but because the way the political process works. Politicians in the United States have events, they have weekend retreats, you have to write a check and then you’re invited and participate.

“So if you work in the government affairs team in the United States, you spend your weekends going to these events; you spend your evenings going to these dinners, and the reason you go is because the PAC writes a check.

“But out of that ongoing effort a relationship evolves and emerges and solidifies … I’m sometimes calling members and asking for their help ongreen cards, or on visa issues …Or the issues around national security, or privacy …

“There are times when I call people who I don’t personally know, and somebody will say ‘you know, your folks have always shown up for me at my events. And we have a good relationship. Let me see what I can do to help you.’”

Anonymous ID: 9ba7c8 Jan. 1, 2025, 3:52 p.m. No.22273506   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22273479

>https://www.citizen.org/article/big-tech-lobbying-update/

 

Big Tech shelled out for 94% of key legislators

 

(Visa would be under a subcommittee of Judicary)

 

Big Tech campaign spending is directed heavily at the four committees in Congress with jurisdiction over antitrust and privacy legislation: the House Judiciary Committee, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Tables 1 through 4 in the Appendix list the amount of campaign contributions the members of these committees have received from Big Tech PACs and lobbyists.

 

Some streams of funding have garnered more attention in recent years. These include funding think tanks,as well as academics, who may research, advocate, and publish in favor of Big Tech companies, without necessarily disclosing their benefactors.

 

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google also sponsor individual academics, who often fail to appropriately disclose conflicts of interest as a result of this funding. As one example, Fiona Scott Morton, a Yale University economist who has published multiple influential articles on the antitrust cases against Facebook and Google, was found in 2020 to have received funds from Amazon and Apple –– yet failed to disclose them until they was uncovered by reporters.[31]

 

I haven't been able yet to see who might have been "funding" Erich Blach or Peter House who alleged we would be short manpower so the Visa gates would be opened. (Re:

www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_NSF_SG_Complete_INET.pdf)