> By accepting these investments, tech companies get to revel in the branding glory of global good while taking billions from a government that stands against m

> By accepting these investments, tech companies get to revel in the branding glory of global good while taking billions from a government that stands against many of those goals It seems to me that all (or at least almost all) of the companies cited in the article are now (as of Nov 2017) public companies, how are they supposed to not accept investments? On the one hand I understand the criticism because many of those investments came before those companies went public (e.g. the one, cited in the article, that Twitter took in 2011) but what would be the proposed action now? The article seemed to me a bit simplistic.