Google’s complaint on Microsoft’s “lobbying for regulations that benefit their own interests” is laughable. Not because it doesn’t happen, but because Google is the greatest lobbyist of them all.

I’m currently reading “The age of Surveillance Capitalism”, written in 2019 by Shoshana Zuboff. On page 124, it reads:

That same year [2014], while [Google CEO] Schmidt disparaged incumbents and their political sway, Google spent more on lobbying than any other corporation – over u$d 17 million and nearly twice as much as surveillance rival Facebook. In the next few years, as the White House changed hands, Google maintained its pace, outspending every other company with a more than u$d 18 million lobbying outlay in 2018 as the company fended off privacy legislation and other initiatives that might impede its freedom to capture and process behavioral surplus. Google was also among the wealthiest of all registered lobbyists in the EU, second only to a lobbying group that represents a confederation of European corporations.