There's been discussion of whether Google should be booted from the San Francisco pride parade because of hate speech on YouTube. But let's not just blame YouTube! Journey with me into a thread of political donations Google has made in support of hate.https://www.advocate.com/pride/2019/6/07/will-google-get-booted-san-francisco-pride-parade …
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What strikes me about Google's political support for these causes is how *unnecessary* it is. Google runs one of the most sophisticated lobbying operations in DC. It could join IBM and Apple in disbanding its PAC altogether, and suffer no consequences. But they just don't care.
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There's now 100K of you who work at Google. You can flex a little and make this all stop.
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Google's public FEC filings include a list of every single employee who pays into this hot mess. You can contact fellow Googlers and make sure they know what their donations are going to fund. Many pay in via payroll deduction, and may have no idea. https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/649/201905209149757649/201905209149757649.pdf …
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@sfpride, please consider Google's long and consistent history of political donations in support of anti-gay and anti-trans bigots. The examples in this thread are recent, but the pattern extends back for years. I'm happy to cite additional examples from earlier election yearsShow this thread
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You missed the part where they promised the entire company they would *never* go back to CPAC after they did this in 2012. Then they just showed up as top cosponsor 5 years later. What changed? Why?
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Political leadership. Google bends to China and other governments that want to stifle free access to information; I don't they would blink at funding authoritarianism here if that's what they think gets them the access the need.
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