[Teever]

Voting a core pillar of democracy.

We don't let children vote, or in some places the incarcerated and/or felons, and we judiciously regulate how and when others can vote.

If we can regulate voting this way surely we can regulate lobbying.

[sputr]

You realise that lobbying is literally sitting down for a cup of coffee with "a friend", right?

It's a whole different world of probal that would require an authoritarian state with an absolute control over people's lives... And at that point it becomes moot.

[hulitu]

> You realise that lobbying is literally sitting down for a cup of coffee with "a friend", right?

You realize that lobbying is literally hiring the polician in your NGO, before and after his tennure, right ? /s

[JumpCrisscross]

> If we can regulate voting this way surely we can regulate lobbying

We absolutely regulate lobbying.

[93po]

Not effectively

[JumpCrisscross]

> Not effectively

Sure. Perhaps the greatest asset the over-the-top lobbyists have is the ban-lobbying bunch.