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		firefoxman1 on Jan 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to F... Seems pretty reasonable to me. It's obviously bad business to get involved in politics, but for these companies it's either "Take ourselves offline for temporarily or face the chance of getting put out of business forever."

wmf on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

It's obviously bad business to get involved in politics

Quite the opposite; each dollar spent on lobbying usually produces more than a dollar in government subsidies.

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