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I doubt there was much love to be lost between Google and conservative congressmen, many of whom are being pushed and are pushing for section 230 reforms. This

I doubt there was much love to be lost between Google and conservative congressmen, many of whom are being pushed and are pushing for section 230 reforms. This is just an opportunity for Google to leverage for PR.

scottlamb 6y ago
Google's NetPAC, which they encouraged Googlers to contribute to, was previously donating to many of these conservative politicians. This was a sore point for the many Googlers who would be negatively affected by those politicians' policies, notably including LGBT Googlers. And hard to reconcile with Google's stated values. This news is good but insufficient. For starters, "this cycle"? Really? Treason shouldn't be so quickly forgiven. For any Googlers reading this: please don't contribute to NetPAC. Try the EFF instead.
- tenpies 6y ago
  > Treason shouldn't be so quickly forgiven. That's the issue. One side is convinced this is treason - they survived an insurrection! Deploy the National Guard and unleash the Gestapo. We need to designate 74 MM Americans as terrorist sympathizers! All those politicians who are not with us should be executed and re-education camps opened now! The other side saw something closer to what most of the world saw: a demonstration where a group of people got out of hand and a handful of people in that group took it too far.
  - Retric 6y ago
    It’s clear this wasn’t simply a mob going to far, it was very targeted. If they simply occupied the several buildings that wouldn’t have been a big deal IMO, but it’s clear their was effort to rifle though specific offices looking for information etc. EX: https://www.foxnews.com/us/nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-riot-russian-intelligence https://www.foxnews.com/us/nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-riot-... I don’t know how accurate the above story is, but it does speak to significant premeditation etc. PS: If you look into how other countries covered the story it’s often portrayed as a more serious event than shown by American sources.
  - akhilcacharya 6y ago
    “Most of the world” called it an attempted coup in an attempt to cancel the votes of 81 million Americans.
  - Broken_Hippo 6y ago
    That is definitely not what the world saw. The world saw an attempted coup. A group of people forcing themselves into the capitol building, seemingly helped by law enforcement and security. They saw these folks were inspired by Trump's words and actions. They saw the folks breaking windows in a capitol building with lawmakers present have less force than folks marching in streets. American news sources have tended to be more lenient with the wording and description of it all, especially at first.
ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Presumably the fact that Republicans no longer control either the Senate or the House, conservative funding gets them much less these days.
kpennell 6y ago
Shout out to Judd Legum from Popular Information for all the lobbying work he has done to get companies to stop supporting insurrectionists https://popular.info/about https://popular.info/about

scottlamb 6y ago

Google's NetPAC, which they encouraged Googlers to contribute to, was previously donating to many of these conservative politicians. This was a sore point for the many Googlers who would be negatively affected by those politicians' policies, notably including LGBT Googlers. And hard to reconcile with Google's stated values. This news is good but insufficient. For starters, "this cycle"? Really? Treason shouldn't be so quickly forgiven. For any Googlers reading this: please don't contribute to NetPAC. Try the EFF instead.

tenpies 6y ago
> Treason shouldn't be so quickly forgiven. That's the issue. One side is convinced this is treason - they survived an insurrection! Deploy the National Guard and unleash the Gestapo. We need to designate 74 MM Americans as terrorist sympathizers! All those politicians who are not with us should be executed and re-education camps opened now! The other side saw something closer to what most of the world saw: a demonstration where a group of people got out of hand and a handful of people in that group took it too far.
- Retric 6y ago
  It’s clear this wasn’t simply a mob going to far, it was very targeted. If they simply occupied the several buildings that wouldn’t have been a big deal IMO, but it’s clear their was effort to rifle though specific offices looking for information etc. EX: https://www.foxnews.com/us/nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-riot-russian-intelligence https://www.foxnews.com/us/nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-riot-... I don’t know how accurate the above story is, but it does speak to significant premeditation etc. PS: If you look into how other countries covered the story it’s often portrayed as a more serious event than shown by American sources.
- akhilcacharya 6y ago
  “Most of the world” called it an attempted coup in an attempt to cancel the votes of 81 million Americans.
- Broken_Hippo 6y ago
  That is definitely not what the world saw. The world saw an attempted coup. A group of people forcing themselves into the capitol building, seemingly helped by law enforcement and security. They saw these folks were inspired by Trump's words and actions. They saw the folks breaking windows in a capitol building with lawmakers present have less force than folks marching in streets. American news sources have tended to be more lenient with the wording and description of it all, especially at first.

ocdtrekkie 6y ago

Presumably the fact that Republicans no longer control either the Senate or the House, conservative funding gets them much less these days.

kpennell 6y ago

Shout out to Judd Legum from Popular Information for all the lobbying work he has done to get companies to stop supporting insurrectionists https://popular.info/about https://popular.info/about