This after dipping their toes in to the water last year:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/facebook-aid-cpac-courts-conservatives-235256
RIP "Don't be evil"
Google listed as presenting sponsor at CPAC 2018(not listed online)
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This after dipping their toes in to the water last year:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/facebook-aid-cpac-courts-conservatives-235256
RIP "Don't be evil"
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Figured I'd give this a bump now that it was mentioned in an article and considering the #BoycottNRA movement we're seeing:
https://www.politico.com/newsletter...tech-groups-not-so-fast-on-fosta-sesta-113560
https://www.politico.com/newsletter...tech-groups-not-so-fast-on-fosta-sesta-113560
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Ummm...
Is anyone surprised? Google is concerned about money and will pay lip service to various causes for beneficial PR. They were never on your side and will never be your friend.
Is anyone surprised? Google is concerned about money and will pay lip service to various causes for beneficial PR. They were never on your side and will never be your friend.
Just curious do they also sponsor left and minority politically driven events?
I don't think it excuses CPAC at all though, with that alt right stuff and general garbage.
If they don't it just proves their diversity is just lip service then.
I don't think it excuses CPAC at all though, with that alt right stuff and general garbage.
If they don't it just proves their diversity is just lip service then.
Personally I'm at the default position where Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and the Domain of Beezosbulb, fuck all Corporate entries are necessary evils. They succeeded in worming their way into our lives
Most companies play both sides. Wish more people would stop expecting anything less from most companies. Their only goal is to maintain and lobby people to keep laws in favor of their business models and/or make them lax to allow for them to make more money. It sucks to see but its expected sadly.
As a huge Google fan, this really grosses me out. I will be curious to see what they have to say about this.
You're like a decade behind...
https://twitter.com/brentbutt/status/412700627152961536
Google motto 2018: We sponsor CPAC where the speakers include Marion Le Pen of "Europe's pro-Russia, anti-Semitic, nationalist movement"
https://twitter.com/evan_mcmullin/status/966733433862008832
Why would you be a "fan" of a multimillion company? That's what I don't understand
Amusing that this had no responses until the bump.
And yeah, this isn't all that surprising. Tech companies want to reach into those republican wallets too.
Not too mention Google once held fund raisers for senator "hey look at this snowball climate change pfft" Inahofe
And yeah, this isn't all that surprising. Tech companies want to reach into those republican wallets too.
Not too mention Google once held fund raisers for senator "hey look at this snowball climate change pfft" Inahofe
There are no ethical consumables under capitalism. Not surprised at all, but still disappointed.
Not here
nor anywhere I frequent in my experience
Meanwhile if you post a thread with 'Apple' in the title expect a fierce debate and phone warz
Their DC office which is run by a former GOP rep is probably ground central for their lobbying efforts; I'd imagine that's the focus of the event they are hosting.. a chance to shmooze with people who are in power and make laws that affect the company.
Meh; not going to lose my shit over something like this. It likely has nothing to do with promoting anything the GOP or Conservatives do.
Meh; not going to lose my shit over something like this. It likely has nothing to do with promoting anything the GOP or Conservatives do.
That's the reason most of these people get fired. They don't disapprove of the conduct. They just don't want it getting out from behind closed doors.
This is simply the Weinstein dynamic wearing a new hat.
Some of that is we have a handful of VERY vocal, VERY obvious fans who comprise the defense force. There's no real other way to state it, because they deflect any sort of blame for the company in any way.
This is some bullshit from Google, but as someone else said above, you figure these big companies play both sides all the time. They shouldn't touch CPAC with a ten thousand foot pole though.
The fire Bernie lit under progressives has big tech shook, so its not at all surprising that they'll start cozying up to the GOP the more pressure is put on Democrats to fight for progressive economic policies that they are vehemently against.
why yall surprised, these mega companies arent looking out for you or minorities, lol. google/disney/apple aren't your friend
Stop it.
Wealthy people and their companies ain'tcho friends! There's barely such a thing as a moral corporation.
Push comes to shove, we've been telling these bozos everything about ourselves through internet and phone use to the point where populist leftist public figures will be blackmailed to irrelevancy a generation or two from now.
Wealthy people and their companies ain'tcho friends! There's barely such a thing as a moral corporation.
Push comes to shove, we've been telling these bozos everything about ourselves through internet and phone use to the point where populist leftist public figures will be blackmailed to irrelevancy a generation or two from now.
Yeah this is a big case of no big deal. They get their foot in the door with this stuff
I think their products and services are some of the best available in their different markets. There aren't companies you tend to favor as a consumer because you enjoy their products?
Probably not, but why is that relevant? People are responding to the specific affiliation of Google and CPAC, not the company's general involvement in politics.
Qwant or Duckduckgo. You shouldn't be using Google anyway.
The amount of times whether or not "someone is surprised" is the point is rather low. The point is rather "Will you give a company a pass, which supports destrucitve forces".
You can give them a pass, but you don't have to.
Yeah but what about the starving kids in Africa? Anyone thinking of them?