I'm surprised that the news of Microsoft suspending their political donations hasn't been more broadly covered.
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Microsoft is a finalist (along with Amazon) for a $10B Pentagon cloud computing contract. For them to decide to suspend their political giving now, before a final decision is made, reflects the degree of internal pressure Microsoft employees were bringing to bear
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If you've argued that corporate PACs are just a fact of doing business in the United States, consider that now the two largest American corporations don't run one. And I feel confident that Apple and Microsoft get their calls answered in D.C.
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My mistake was posting this story myself instead of feeding it to a reporter. They're like pythons; you have to wiggle the prey in front of them so they feel like they're hunting something
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It seems like this should be updated with a link to the aforementioned memo, especially given the endnote on the post? (Thank you for reporting on this in such detail.)
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