Tuesday, January 31, 2017
All these companies are in bed with the CIA or are flat out fronts
The US tech industry "resistance" to Trump is growing louder, and on Tuesday a group of top technology companies including Google, AirBnB and Netflix, plan to meet on Tuesday to discuss filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging President Trump's order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, said a spokesperson for a company organizing the gathering cited by Reuters. The meeting is being called together by GitHub, which makes software development tools.
For those unfamiliar, amicus, or "friend of the court", briefs are filed by parties who are not litigants in a case but want to offer arguments or information to the judge. In other words, tech companies do not want to burn all bridges with the president, but they don't want to lose their liberal clients either by being perceived as doing nothing, something which impacted Uber adversely over the weekend, leading to the #DeleteUber social media meme.
As Reuters adds, some of the companis invited to the meeting are Alphabet's Google, Airbnb and Netflix.
As reported yesterday, the technology sector has become the clearest corporate opponent to the ban announced last week, however not due to a genuinely altruistic reason, but because Trump's crackdown on H1-B visas threatens to cutoff a key labor supply. The industry depends on talent from around the world, and companies have been considering the best way to muster their resources, with efforts so far including statements condemning the move and financial support for organizations backing immigrants, such as the American Civil Liberties Union.
According to Michal Rosenn, general counsel for fundraising company Kickstarter, which will be involved in a filing, the "effort" - which at places like Bloomberg has already been dubbed the "resistance" - began on Monday. "We're all very shaken. We're shaken to see our neighbors and our families and our friends targeted in this way," Rosenn said. "All of us are trying to think about what we can do."
The discussions among the tech companies come after Amazon.com and Expedia filed declarations in court on Monday supporting a lawsuit filed by the Washington state attorney general. Amazon and Expedia said Trump's order adversely impacts their business.
A separate lawsuit challenging Trump's order as unconstitutional was filed on Monday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Additionally, Microsoft said it would aid the Washington AG lawsuit against the Trump executive order. If the tech companies decide to file an amicus brief as a group, it is unclear which case they would weigh in on.
Other companies invited to meet, according to Reuters, include Adobe Systems Inc, AdRoll, Automattic Inc, Box Inc, Cloudera Inc, Cloudflare Inc, Docusign, Dropbox, Etsy Inc, Evernote Corp, Glu Mobile Inc, Lithium, Medium, Mozilla, Pinterest, reddit, Salesforce.com Inc, SpaceX, Stripe, Twilio, Yelp Inc, and Zynga Inc, the source said.
Meanwhile, as Bloomberg adds, thousands of Google employees staged protests on Monday over Trump's executive order on immigration. More than two thousand employees of Google parent Alphabet Inc. participated across several offices. At Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai and co-Founder Sergey Brin -- both immigrants -- spoke to the crowd, voicing concerns over Trump's order that limits travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The satanic network readies yet another blow to the world, in their quest for a NWO of pedophile satanists feasting on the blood of our young.
Who wrote Federal Immigration Law, Section 1182 (f) ? Come on Google, tell me because it was written before Trump was elected. Clinton maybe.
That's odd. I guess it's easy to "sympathize" with rapefugees and terrorists entering the country when you travel with several heavily armed bodyguards and live in a mansion surrounded by 10 foot walls.