F*ck every single one of these tech companies. They haven't given a shit about this country or its people for some time. It's always been about profits.
What I find fascinating is that after railing against offshoring jobs for over a decade, now the loser left is siding with the biggest offenders wanting to sell off what's left in the way of jobs in America. On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 11:24:45 AM UTC-5, btdt100 wrote: > > Wasn't it the NAZIs who buddied up with the government so to get slave > labor from the concentration camps? > > > Nearly 100 Tech Companies Join Forces In Court To Oppose Donald Trump's > Immigration Ban > > > > *http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/06/nearly-100-tech-companies-join-forces-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-ban/#50f6910c124b > > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/06/nearly-100-tech-companies-join-forces-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-ban/#50f6910c124b>* > > > *UPDATE: Feb. 6, 5:55 pm. Tesla Inc. and SpaceX were among 31 companies > added to the brief late Monday afternoon. Elon Musk, CEO of both Tesla and > SpaceX, is the last remaining technology executive on Trump's business > council.* > > The biggest names in Silicon Valley lined up over the weekend to support a > high-profile legal battle against President Donald Trump's recent executive > orders banning immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries. Having > already publicly denounced Trump's orders > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/03/silicon-valley-giants-joins-forces-again-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-orders/#56ca2ad794f5>, > > which were temporarily blocked last week by a federal judge, leaders in the > technology industry joined a friend of the court brief opposing the ban. > > Trump's orders represent "a significant departure from the principles of > fairness > and predictability that have governed the immigration system of the United > States for more than fifty years," reads the amicus brief, written by > Andrew Pincus of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown LLP. "The > Order makes it more difficult and expensive for U.S. companies to > recruit, hire, and retain some of the world’s best employees. It disrupts > ongoing business operations. And it threatens companies’ ability to > attract talent, business, and investment to the United States." > > The amicus brief, filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San > Francisco late Sunday, is in support of a lawsuit against Trump's > immigration orders by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. > Seattle-based Amazon had previously filed a declaration of support > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/01/30/amazons-jeff-bezos-issues-strong-statement-opposing-trumps-immigration-order/#781dcb47284e> > in > the case, and as a result was not on the list of firms who joined the > friend of the court brief. Notably absent as well were Oracle, Palantir > (co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel), Qualcomm and IBM. In a statement to > FORBES, a spokesperson for IBM said its CEO, Ginni Rometty, "conveyed the > company's views directly" to Trump at an in-person meeting last week. That > meeting > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/02/05/brash-elon-musk-tweets-a-moderate-course-as-he-adapts-to-trump-era-challenges/#2f3df514f01e>, > > also attended by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was originally to include > other Silicon Valley leaders who pulled out after intense public backlash > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2017/02/02/uber-ceo-quits-trump-advisory-council-after-deleteuber/#468b7ba111e0> > against > the immigration orders. > > The last time tech companies joined forces on this scale was nearly a year > ago, when dozens of firms signed friend of the court briefs in support of > Apple > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/03/03/silicon-valley-backs-apple-in-fight-with-fbi/#411a035d2521> > in > the smartphone maker's encryption battle with the federal government. At > the time, the unifying thread for companies was a shared resistance to > government-imposed orders on software security built into devices. Now, > it's the widely-held belief in Silicon Valley that immigrants have and > continue to be a driving force in the American economy - or at least, for > the Valley's own bottom line. > Recommended by Forbes"Immigrants are leading entrepreneurs," Sunday's > brief reads. "Some of these businesses are large. Immigrants or their > children founded more than 200 of the companies on the Fortune 500 list > ... Collectively, these companies generate annual revenue of $4.2 trillion, > and employ millions of Americans." > > It's unclear exactly how the brief came together over the weekend, and > which technology trade organizations, if any, were involved. Pincus > declined to comment beyond the order Monday morning. > > Many of the same companies who signed the brief are still expected to send > a public letter to Trump's administration > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/03/silicon-valley-giants-joins-forces-again-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-orders/#329c71fe94f5> > regarding > the ban. > > > Here is a complete list of the companies who signed the order, in > alphabetical order: > > 1. AdRoll, Inc. 2. Aeris Communications, Inc. 3. Airbnb, Inc. 4. > AltSchool, PBC 5. Ancestry.com, LLC 6. Appboy, Inc. 7. Apple Inc. 8. > AppNexus Inc. 9. Asana, Inc. 10. Atlassian Corp Plc 11. Autodesk, Inc. 12. > Automattic Inc. 13. Box, Inc. 14. Brightcove Inc. 15. Brit + Co 16. > CareZone Inc. 17. Castlight Health 18. Checkr, Inc. > > 19. Chobani, LLC 20. Citrix Systems, Inc. 21. Cloudera, Inc. 22. > Cloudflare, Inc. 23. Copia Institute 24. DocuSign, Inc. 25. DoorDash, Inc. > 26. Dropbox, Inc. 27. Dynatrace LLC 28. eBay Inc. 29. Engine Advocacy 30. > Etsy Inc. 31. Facebook, Inc. 32. Fastly, Inc. 33. Flipboard, Inc. 34. > Foursquare Labs, Inc. 35. Fuze, Inc. 36. General Assembly 37. GitHub 38. > Glassdoor, Inc. 39. Google Inc. 40. GoPro, Inc. 41. Harmonic Inc. 42. > Hipmunk, > Inc. 43. Indiegogo, Inc.44. Intel Corporation 45. JAND, Inc. d/b/a Warby > Parker 46. Kargo Global, Inc.47. Kickstarter, PBC 48. KIND, LLC 49. > Knotel 50. Levi Strauss & Co. 51. LinkedIn Corporation 52. Lithium > Technologies, Inc. 53. Lyft, Inc. 54. Mapbox, Inc. 55. Maplebear Inc. > d/b/a Instacart 56. Marin Software Incorporated 57. Medallia, Inc. 58. A > Medium Corporation 59. Meetup, Inc. 60. Microsoft Corporation 61. Motivate > International Inc. 62. Mozilla Corporation 63. Netflix, Inc. 64. NETGEAR, > Inc. 65. NewsCred, Inc. 66. Patreon, Inc. 67. PayPal Holdings, Inc. 68. > Pinterest, > Inc. 69. Quora, Inc. 70. Reddit, Inc. 71. Rocket Fuel Inc. 72. SaaStr > Inc. 73. Salesforce.com, Inc. 74. Scopely, Inc. 75. Shutterstock, Inc. > 76. Snap Inc. 77. Spokeo, Inc. 78. Spotify USA Inc. 79. Square, Inc. > 80. Squarespace, Inc. 81. Strava, Inc. 82. Stripe, Inc. 83. SurveyMonkey > Inc. 84. TaskRabbit, Inc 85. Tech:NYC 86. Thumbtack, Inc. 87. Turn Inc. > 88. Twilio Inc. 89. Twitter Inc. 90. Turn Inc. 91. Uber Technologies, Inc. > 92. Via 93. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 94. Workday 95. Y Combinator > Management, LLC 96. Yelp Inc. 97. Zynga Inc. > > Added later Monday: > > 97. Adobe Systems Incorporated 98. Affirm, Inc. 99. Ampush LLC 100. > Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 101. Bungie, Inc. 102. Casper Sleep > Inc. 103. Cavium, Inc. 104. Chegg, Inc. 105. ClassPass Inc. 106. Coursera > 107. EquityZen Inc. 108. Evernote 109. Gusto 110. Handy Technologies, Inc. > 111. HP Inc. 112. IAC/InterActiveCorp 113. Linden Lab 114. Managed By Q > Inc. 115. MobileIron 116. New Relic, Inc. 117. Pandora Media, Inc. 118. > Planet Labs Inc. 119. RPX Corporation 120. Shift Technologies, Inc. 121. > Slack Technologies, Inc. 122. SpaceX 123. Tesla, Inc. 124. TripAdvisor, > Inc. 125. Udacity, Inc. 126. Zendesk, Inc. 127. Zenefits > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
