Google Now Spends More on Lobbying Than Lockheed Martin

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5. Many of the things they fight for are things most here would agree with.

Things like tightening up laws to block the governments ability to snoop on your email and web browsing habits without a warrant. Or the recent huge fight that stopped SOPA in its tracks. Or getting patent laws modified so that you can't claim millions of dollars worth of damages over a rounded corner or bouncy screen, and to stop patent trolls in their tracks. These are things that most privacy activists and techies have been fighting for since the 90's. The EFF has only had marginal success in those wars, and if Google can do a better job with their billions of dollars and armies of lobbyists, then more power to them.