Posted on 07/15/2016 6:19:33 PM PDT by dennisw
Over 140 of Silicon Valley’s entrepeneurs and executives have signed an open letter condemning Donald Trump as a potential “disaster for innovation,” praising government involvement in the economy, and claiming “diversity is our strength.”
The letter’s signatures includes several high-profile names in tech like Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, and Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.
Executives from companies like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Slack, Snapchat and Yelp also signed the open letter, as well as Arielle Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Ev Williams, founder and CEO of Medium and co-founder of Twitter also signed the open letter.
The letter, which can be read in full here, condemned Trump’s stances on immigration and “insults to women” as obstacles to innovation.
Let’s start with the human talent that drives innovation forward. We believe that America’s diversity is our strength. Great ideas come from all parts of society, and we should champion that broad-based creative potential. We also believe that progressive immigration policies help us attract and retain some of the brightest minds on earth — scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators. In fact, 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Donald Trump, meanwhile, traffics in ethnic and racial stereotypes, repeatedly insults women, and is openly hostile to immigration. He has promised a wall, mass deportations, and profiling.
We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy — demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. His penchant to censor extends to revoking press credentials and threatening to punish media platforms that criticize him.
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Never Trumpers must be so conflicted now....Bbaaaaaawwwwaaaaahhhhh
Yes, progressive immigration policies help attract people with bright minds WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK CHEEEEEEEEAP !!!!! /s
How many people has Hillary hired compared to Trump?
“We believe that America’s diversity is our strength.”
Lol. They didn’t think that one out to well, did they?
I believe that American’s diversity is THEIR strength too.
And they pat themselves on the back that they’re helping the whole wide world this way.
Trouble is, they’ve placed themselves as the benevolent bosses of the “whole wide world.” Let the people from a country get too uppity, and suddenly they won’t be dealing with those folks any more.
Not even worth it anymore.
Lol, what BS. Diversity is their keep labor cost low strength, or strategy.
Even H1B outfits vary in nature.
Some of them are better than others in helping their people to succeed long-term. But others seem to be interested in setting up near-mindless hives.
H1B
Even Silicon Valley is campaigning for Trump!
Gosh, rich liberal Democrats don’t like Trump.
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
I guess they all want a government bailout. But they won’t get that from Hillary either.
Trump will create a better business climate that will help these companies.
They should stop and think for a minute, then they would realize this and start supporting Trump.
Rich Communists complain about Trump. Film at 11.
140 votes in California which she’s going to carry anyway
Masters of the Universe are afraid.
just wait, they’ll love him after he wins. They’ll be lined up to kiss the ring.
Greedy bastards. All they want is cheap labor so they can pay their Bengali engineers minimum wage. How ‘bout this for an idea: SHARE THE WEALTH with your employees for a change. Jerks.
Rich leftists who have been undercutting American workers for decades.....
This sounds like a preemptive strike against Trump based on rumors, gossip and hearsay — unfortunately now the American way.
I suspect that these executives are clueless about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers and associated limited power to appropriate taxes.
From a related thread …
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So while executives are hiding company revenues overseas to protect them from taxes, probably little do they know that much of the federal taxes that they pay are unconstitutional imo.
F*** them all. May Muslims show them some "diversity."
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