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BOYcOTT faCEBOOK and THEir treaSONOUs stand AGAINSt ALEC and center RIGHt leanING aMERica!!1111!1one!11!1!!!
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Why did Google, Facebook and Microsoft join in the first place?
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Political showmanship. They have done their damage and don’t need ALEC anymore. These big tech companies figure they have set the wheels in motion to take over the internet, have already gathered as much information about their customers as they want, and made sure their cable companies and IPO are in good form. It will take years, maybe decades to undo the dye in the water or poison in the system. Why pay ALEC dues when their CEO’s are unable to buy that fifth house?
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Would it be OK to ask why these Corporations ever had a relationship with ALEC? It no secret what ALEC is up to. ALEC is anti-People…and FB is supposed to be a pro people outfit.
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I saw this on the alec website and found it amusing:
“ALEC is the nation’s largest, non-partisan, individual public-private membership association of state legislators.”
Non-partisan? Really? I’m supposed to believe that tripe? If they are non-partisan why do they push right wing ideology?
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FB is hardly pro-people.
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Pro people’s money outfit is more like it.
That is the $64,000 question, isn’t it?
Sure is.
This isn’t a declaration they are leaving. Read the statement. It is a clear threat to ALEC to give them more power within the organization. Nothing to see here other than the obvious: Facebook is a threat to civil liberties worldwide and Zuckerstein is a megalomaniac.
How did all these big tech execs get fleeced by ALEC in the first place? Only dyed-in-the-wool hard-right conservatives should have any interest in getting in bed with ALEC; if the execs had particular policy interests, much more effective to concentrate on those causes directly.
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$64K…Cheap date, are ya? lol lol
Willing participants initially.
Easy enough. And the reasons are pretty sad. If you want to address issues that are important to you on the state level, ALEC is the only game in town. It doesn’t matter if you have neutral, benevolent or malevolent intentions, ALEC is your only choice.
"Cheap is a personality statement—I’m cheap, but never, ever inexpensive.
Say goodbye, Beej.
Horseshit, dear.
ALEC is a far-right-wing group dedicated to destroying every gain the US has made in the 20th century.
If you care about issues that are important to you on the state level, then learn what the people of your state support, whether those things are worthy of your support, and go from there.
ALEC is like the execrable novels of Ayn Rand—suitable for exciting the hormones of pimply-faced adolescents of any age (14 to 90) but never to be taken seriously as a source of knowledge or anything worth your time.
I knew that was something I like about you…
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