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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Finally, we believe that government plays an important role in the technology economy by investing in infrastructure, education and scientific research. Donald Trump articulates few policies beyond erratic and contradictory pronouncements. His reckless disregard for our legal and political institutions threatens to upend what attracts companies to start and scale in America. He risks distorting markets, reducing exports, and slowing job creation.
Although Silicon Valley developed a reputation as an island of prosperity in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, many of the companies that became household names in the noughties and early 2010s are now in financial trouble. Twitter’s value has plummeted, while Reddit is reportedly considering shuttering areas of its site as revenues continue to underwhelm. Silicon Valley no longer has the reputation for economic miracle-making it once did — although its reputation for ardent progressivism remains.
Laughable.
No government contracts for them over an 8 year period!
The Cheap Labor Express doesn’t like Trump?
I’ll tell my friends.
They want cheap labor so they can keep buying their island residences.
November 8th, 2016 will be one of the best nights of my life, after Reagan winning, a couple of nights in Vegas, one in AC and that marriage thing.
“...We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet...”
Did Zuckerburg get this memo???
Things are going so well now we don’t want to rock the boat...
diversity is their strength? say what?!
then move to africa or indonesia. don’t sit in the US and import your labor from cheap 3rd world sh*t holes while ignoring American workers
I’m just going to increase my pirating of your software then.
If they got truth serum they’d be telling us “Diversity is our ruse.” The more disunited the picture, they more they can lead it by the globalist nose.
These masters of the universe can FOAD! All they care about is themselves, tranny bathrooms, gay marriage and their stock options. About the least patriotic bunch anywhere.
Gee, 140 votes for Hillary.
Of course, they would. They are the beneficiaries of the free trade agreements with China and elsewhere.
“They want cheap labor so they can keep buying their island residences.”
Rat boy Zuckerberg bought a new 100 million dollar compound in Hawaii and has his neighbors complaining about the wall/fence he is putting up.
They want to “bugger” up society into mindless confusion, then lead them around according to their own pleasures.
Will they leave the country if Trump wins?
Boo hoo, hoo, no more cheap H-1B visas.
Well I’m glad to hear that the tech billionaires think everything is going just fine for them.
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