Lobbying is okay, as long as it doesn't also turn into "campaign donations" or "paying for parties" (like MPAA did for state AG's, in the fight against Google).
Lobbying + campaign donations should be automatically considered bribing. But this is America, the land of the free...to pay bribes legally, I guess.
Uber does make campaign donations [1]. To suggest it's all about 'spreading information' seems naive at best, if not dishonest.
Garcetti had a $250,000 campaign contribution from Uber
(or the CEO) in his run for the LA Mayor
Drischler had ordered the apps to shut down service in L.A.
soon before Garcetti took office. But the day Garcetti took
over, his office ordered Drischler to stop talking to the media.
Lobbying + campaign donations should be automatically considered bribing. But this is America, the land of the free...to pay bribes legally, I guess.