Hahahahaha, damn Google.

"Help us prevent government from stopping us from being bad actors".

I love how ambiguous they're being, because "lawmakers are proposing regulations that protect consumers from our invasive surveillance which maintains our monopoly on advertising so we can charge you more money" just doesn't have that same ring to it.

Google encourages "protecting your business against costly state regulations"

Just remove the 'y' from 'your' and the sentence goes from lie to truth.

This is the same route they take when saying social media can’t be regulated. Small Businesses.

I think there's some confusion over the intent here.

Lawmakers in state capitals across the country [...]

So based on this, Google is using "state" here to mean a US state and not the more general meaning of government.

For large corporations like Google, each state having its own local regulations (e.g. privacy regulations such as CCPA) is expensive because they have to account for different rules in different places, which means whole teams of legal experts just to be familiar with each state's regulations and interpret what they mean for operating the business.

It's also problematic in a technical sense, because on the internet how do you know if a particular user is a legal resident of Texas or Colorado or New Hampshire, and would even knowing that be a violation of their privacy rights?

So the intent here is to push federal regulation over state regulation, because it makes the legal and technical problems simpler.

Ultimately this is an argument against the way the Republican party does things, where they reject federal regulations saying that the states should be allowed to regulate themselves and that federal regulation is an overreach. This leads to weaker protections for citizens and weaker enforcement, which is the Republican party's real intent. Every US citizen should have privacy protections, not just residents of California.

Haha, a strong state would benefit small businesses more

Add onto the pile of no Facebook, no Amazon, no Microsoft, no Apple.

Protect your business against protecting people.

withgoogle.com

They are ashamed to put that fucking shit on their own domain name.