Comments on: Amazon, eBay privacy lobbying sparks cut-and-paste crowdsourcing drive http://gigaom.com/2013/02/11/amazon-ebay-privacy-lobbying-sparks-cut-and-paste-crowdsourcing-drive/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GrassRootsGuy http://gigaom.com/2013/02/11/amazon-ebay-privacy-lobbying-sparks-cut-and-paste-crowdsourcing-drive/#comment-1310943 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:18:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=609401#comment-1310943 Proposing legislation is just a start point for discussion anyway. You throw into the public square ideas and then debate them. Most individual privacy advocates don’t have specific ideas or know how to write them into law.

Hearing from corporate interests allow you to rebut them.

Elected officials will test the wind and go with the flow for the most part. Your job is to make the wind blow by pushing your own ideas.

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]]> By: iribal http://gigaom.com/2013/02/11/amazon-ebay-privacy-lobbying-sparks-cut-and-paste-crowdsourcing-drive/#comment-1310875 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:27:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=609401#comment-1310875 Great information to have–but it’s not a given that this practice is nefarious. What if the parliamentarians proposing amendments actually found those arguments convincing? Were they obligated to rephrase them?

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