Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Web's Growing Muscle

The Web's Growing Muscle

By AMY SCHATZ, GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and ERICA ORDEN


"Last year, though, Google spent $9.68 million on lobbying, up from $1.52 million four years earlier. Facebook, which had a one-man operation in Washington as recently as 2007, set a new lobbying record for itself, spending $1.35 million. "

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When I started this blog project way back in 2000 the question
of Internet Power into the 21st century was central to its thesis.
Would the web evolve to a potent tool of grassroots political activism?
Well last week with the SOPA protests online the Internet came of age.
Technopolitically speaking.