A lot of these are no name cunts or shit that's not relevant to tech (but I imagine if I was more worldly some of these companies are probably big scary ones)
The ones relevant to our worries.
-- LinkedIn
-- hp
-- Microsoft
-- REDDIT
-- pinterest
-- Twitter (the person signed isn't the CEO, but that lawyer cunt that Tim Pool completely obliterated on Joe Rogan's podcast)
You know what's absent from this, interestingly? Facebook. Hmm.
Facebook seems to do less virtue signaling of this sort than a lot of tech companies. I don't know why. Maybe because its userbase skews older? Maybe they get called into enough Congressional hearings they feel the need to not throw fuel on the fire (not that they ever amount to anything)? Maybe they plan to play the "good cop" and be the company that drafts the regulations they'll all be subject to?
I'm going to say it is a bit rich of Facebook to demand ID to prove you're real yet object to ID requirements for voting. Though that hasn't stopped a bunch of other companies I've seen screenshots of online.
Don't get me wrong: I have no love for facebook. But they virtue signal less than say twitter. This doesn't make them "good", just slightly less evil than some.
Well, on the plus side, I've not been doing much support of these. Unfortunately I kinda buy a lot of one of these companies from a work capacity, but I can't really control that.
Otherwise I tried to pick through and see what I've spent money on or not decreased support of (in case of a free product) and I come up with: Dow (maybe), Dr. Pepper, Microsoft, Under Armour. I'll remember too, most of these are things that have super easy replacement choices. Under Armour doesn't want to go the way of Nike, most of my leftover Nike stuff is getting to throw it in the trash level, and all those $s to replace are going to somewhere else.
My CEO of unnamed giant corporation sent something out about voting rights and I had no idea why at first. It wasn't as bad as this, but it came off (and was) very misinformed. I wish we'd get our previous executive team back, over the years they were all forced to retire. I'd worked with the CTO directly years ago a few times, that guy was extremely sharp, even with things like common sense. I suspect he saw the opportunity and the direction and took his way out.
My employer's executives are still stuck on "no anti-Asian hate". That may change, but they for the most part try to stay away from pure policy issues and just focus on Social Justice. On the other hand they've been sending out more of these "social issue de jour" emails recently, so maybe that will change.
Guarantee a huge chunk of these companies are being pressured into this by bankers/credit card companies. Remove that corrupted heart, the rest of this corporate hydra dies.
A lot of these are no name cunts or shit that's not relevant to tech (but I imagine if I was more worldly some of these companies are probably big scary ones)
The ones relevant to our worries. -- LinkedIn
-- hp
-- Microsoft
-- REDDIT
-- pinterest
-- Twitter (the person signed isn't the CEO, but that lawyer cunt that Tim Pool completely obliterated on Joe Rogan's podcast)
You know what's absent from this, interestingly? Facebook. Hmm.
Facebook seems to do less virtue signaling of this sort than a lot of tech companies. I don't know why. Maybe because its userbase skews older? Maybe they get called into enough Congressional hearings they feel the need to not throw fuel on the fire (not that they ever amount to anything)? Maybe they plan to play the "good cop" and be the company that drafts the regulations they'll all be subject to?
I'm going to say it is a bit rich of Facebook to demand ID to prove you're real yet object to ID requirements for voting. Though that hasn't stopped a bunch of other companies I've seen screenshots of online.
Don't get me wrong: I have no love for facebook. But they virtue signal less than say twitter. This doesn't make them "good", just slightly less evil than some.
Ah, the Resistance.
These corporate citizens are are so brave to face off against the Fascist Adolf Drumpf.
Well, on the plus side, I've not been doing much support of these. Unfortunately I kinda buy a lot of one of these companies from a work capacity, but I can't really control that.
Otherwise I tried to pick through and see what I've spent money on or not decreased support of (in case of a free product) and I come up with: Dow (maybe), Dr. Pepper, Microsoft, Under Armour. I'll remember too, most of these are things that have super easy replacement choices. Under Armour doesn't want to go the way of Nike, most of my leftover Nike stuff is getting to throw it in the trash level, and all those $s to replace are going to somewhere else.
My CEO of unnamed giant corporation sent something out about voting rights and I had no idea why at first. It wasn't as bad as this, but it came off (and was) very misinformed. I wish we'd get our previous executive team back, over the years they were all forced to retire. I'd worked with the CTO directly years ago a few times, that guy was extremely sharp, even with things like common sense. I suspect he saw the opportunity and the direction and took his way out.
My employer's executives are still stuck on "no anti-Asian hate". That may change, but they for the most part try to stay away from pure policy issues and just focus on Social Justice. On the other hand they've been sending out more of these "social issue de jour" emails recently, so maybe that will change.
Goddammit Dr. Pepper, you were supposed to be the best of us.
Great, every company now must have a political opinion?
How about a petition to have safer elections?
Guarantee a huge chunk of these companies are being pressured into this by bankers/credit card companies. Remove that corrupted heart, the rest of this corporate hydra dies.