Message from @Grenade123
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no, i mean like this: "Google’s Multicultural Marketing development head Eliana Murillo sent out an email the day after the 2016 election detailing that Google had “supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states,” which she characterized as a “silent donation.”"
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this has nothing to do with their products
So they shipped voters to the polls?
How would you regulate that sort of thing?
idk, but should the monetary effort expanded count as a donation?
Not really. It's one private company making a deal with another
Nothing *directly* related
“Ultimately, after all was said and done, the Latino community did come out to vote, and completely surprised us,” Murillo wrote in the email. “We never anticipated that 29% of Latinos would vote for Trump. No one did. "
ironic
And making law to regulate *indirect* donations may just lead USA to tyranny
yeah? and what if it was found out a private company was paying trump voters to stay home?
i mean, its just a private company and a private citizen
I'm not saying I like it, or support it
that sounds like corruption to me
But I don't see a way of making legislation that a tyrant couldn't use to gain further power and silence opposition
“It was aimed only at one group, a group that Google cynically assumed would vote exclusively for the Democratic Party,” Carlson said. “Furthermore, this mobilization effort targeted not only the entire country but swing states vital to the Hillary campaign. This was not an exercise in civics, this was political consulting. It was in effect an in-kind contribution to the Hillary Clinton campaign.”
There are a couple of tactics to prevent Google from exercising undue political influence. Minority shareholder lawsuits, threats of anti-trust investigation, and maybe assigning a dollar figure to services donated to political parties and counting that against their contribution limits.
Like , just imagine Trump accusing google and suing them for meddling in the attention for those latino bus rides. Now imagine Hillary doing the same to, say.... McDonald's, saying that too many democrats went to eat burgers than to vote
Like if they're only allowed to donate $500,000 in cash, but they donate $500,000,000 in services that's a big problem.
well the issue with that sort is, what if you just stuff the other faction with services and say you're with them
i don't think companies should be allowed to endorse candidates. not without being labeled a political organization and therefore their efforts count as contributions to their candidate
But google was doing so indoors
So is Twitter and such
The legislation isn't going to stop this sort of thing
And may be used negatively
stop? no. But are you saying there should be no course of action?
the country is already run by corporations enough as it is
Antitrust action is the obvious answer to any company that thinks it's large enough to fix elections.
republicans are too stupid to win the culture war
republican politicians
seeing how rubio reacted to alex jones says it all
we actually have facebook employees onr ecord saying they censor conservative news
twitter employees saying the same
but what does rubio and Rs ask dorsey about?
russia
Rubio is a tool. Completely manufactured.
federal politicians in general are complete garbage. any that aren't complete garbage are anomalies.
Rubio is an example of the Finlandization of the republican party that Trump saved us from.
wasn't rubio a robot?
i recall him repeating his lines
His focus on 'muh Russia' is more evidence that he's carrying water for the left. Gang of Eight was another example.