How is it that lobbies from oil, guns, banks, telecom have historically been so powerful in passing legislation through Washington, yet the software industry is still so completely limp at protecting it's political interests?
I feel like politicians see tech as an easy target to walk all over to rally the technophobe base, and with good reason - there's really no consequences for doing so.
Why is a company like Apple, at time when it has a historic stockpile of cash, trying to duke out political battles by writing open letters to the press and appealing for public support to uphold basic security practices when other industries manage to bend political will in their favor to do truly greedy things at the public's expense on a regular basis?
I feel like politicians see tech as an easy target to walk all over to rally the technophobe base, and with good reason - there's really no consequences for doing so.
Why is a company like Apple, at time when it has a historic stockpile of cash, trying to duke out political battles by writing open letters to the press and appealing for public support to uphold basic security practices when other industries manage to bend political will in their favor to do truly greedy things at the public's expense on a regular basis?