Big Tech companies wine and dine antitrust officials
 

We want less rules

Big Tech companies are funding an expensive lobby group which has the sole aim of making sure they don’t have to deal with any expensive “rules” that normal businesses have to face.

The Global Antitrust Institute is bankrolled in large part by tech companies — corporate donors like Google, Amazon and Qualcomm and it attracted a bit of attention when it was discovered that a year ago it hosted antitrust officials from Australia, Brazil, China, Japan and eight other countries whon enjoyed $110-a-plate steak dinners and unlimited pours from $70 bottles of wine at a beachfront hotel surrounded by panoramic views of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean.

The opulent meal was the culmination of a weeklong conference in scenic Huntington Beach, California, for 30 foreign government officials who enforce competition laws. The trip was organised and mostly paid for by the institute.

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