Google has been making "substantial" donations to conservative propaganda mills

[Professor Emeritus]

Congratulations Google. You have made me even more cynical about the world.

I already knew the "Don't be evil" tagline was bullshyt, but I didn't realize they were so openly flaunting it.

Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.

Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.

The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the Trump administration to abandon the Paris agreement and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.

Google said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.

Google is also listed as a sponsor for an upcoming annual meeting of the State Policy Network (SPN), an umbrella organisation that supports conservative groups including the Heartland Institute, a radical anti-science group that has chided the teenage activist Greta Thunberg for “climate delusion hysterics”.

SPN members recently created a “climate pledge” website that falsely states “our natural environment is getting better” and “there is no climate crisis”.

Google has defended its contributions, saying that its “collaboration” with organisations such as CEI “does not mean we endorse the organisations’ entire agenda”.

It donates to such groups, people close to the company say, to try to influence conservative lawmakers, and – most importantly – to help finance the deregulatory agenda the groups espouse.

Apart from CEI, they include the American Conservative Union, whose chairman, Matt Schlapp, worked for a decade for Koch Industries and shaped the company’s radical anti-environment policies in Washington; the American Enterprise Institute, which has railed against climate “alarmists”; and Americans for Tax Reform, which has criticised companies who support climate action for seeking out “corporate welfare”.

It has also donated undisclosed sums to the Cato Institute, which has voiced opposition to climate legislation and questioned the severity of the crisis. Google has also made donations to the Mercatus Center, a Koch-funded thinktank, and the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, a pressure group that said the Paris agreement was supported by “cosmopolitan elites” and part of Barack Obama’s “destructive legacy”.

Bill McKibben, a prominent environmentalist who has been on the frontline of the climate crisis for decades, said Google and other companies were engaged in a “functional greenwashing” given the contradiction in their public pronouncements and private donations. He said Google and other technology companies had also not used their own lobbyists to advocate for change on climate.

These aren't just moderate groups. They're some of the real full-on bullshyt peddlers responsible for the worst work out there. And the Guardian is focusing on climate positions for some reason but these groups are full on fukk health care, fukk the poor, fukk black folk, fukk immigrants, etc. too.

 

[88m3]

terrible

 

[Strapped]

We really need another mobile operating system asap

 

[Shogun]

Liberal for publicity, conservative for the bottom line.
Same with colleges...preach socialism in the classroom to appeal to the youth while simultaneously being the most ruthlessly capitalist institution in America.

 

[newworldafro]

I thought Google was a company and can do what it wants, isn't that what yall said when companies were censoring conservatives on YouTube...

Noticing the enegy is different.

 

[killacal]

I thought Google was a company and can do what it wants, isn't that what yall said when companies were censoring conservatives on YouTube...

Noticing the enegy is different.

Get Alex Jones dikk off your mind for once

 

[newworldafro]

Get Alex Jones dikk off your mind for once

Only person thinking about diicks is you.
Why you getting upset and rattled?

2018: When all these tech companies were censoring conservatives it was "that's their right to censor!"

2019: Now Google donating to conservative organizations it's "fuuuck Google!" ...so it's not their right to donate to conservatives??
Don't change the energy now.

 

[killacal]

Only person thinking about diicks is you.
Why you getting upset and rattled?

2018: When all these tech companies were censoring conservatives it was "that's their right to censor!"

2019: Now Google donating to conservative organizations it's "fuuuck Google!" ...so it's not their right to donate to conservatives??
Don't change the energy now.

When did i have different energy?
Or are you just saying words your ass learned on here

B b but conservatives

Censor yourself from air bytch nikka

 

[newworldafro]

When did i have different energy?
Or are you just saying words your ass learned on here

B b but conservatives

Censor yourself from air bytch nikka

First of all you responded to me. I wasn't talking to anyone specifically.

You responded to my post about different energy.

You felt compelled to step into the thunderdome, because you apparently felt some kinda way. If you can't debate like an adult then stop inserting yourself in my posts.

You so angry you wishing death on posters??
You so emotional about my posts not directed at anyone in particular, that you couldn't wait to jump in and respond....
but get extra angry when I respond to you?!?

Take your schizo meds you overly emotional guy, please.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

First of all you responded to me. I wasn't talking to anyone specifically.

You responded to my post about different energy.

You felt compelled to step into the thunderdome, because you apparently felt some kinda way. If you can't debate like an adult then stop inserting yourself in my posts.

You so angry you wishing death on posters??
You so emotional about my posts not directed at anyone in particular, that you couldn't wait to jump in and respond....
but get extra angry when I respond to you?!?

Take your schizo meds you overly emotional guy, please.

It's like you have no self-awareness.

 

[killacal]

It's like you have no self-awareness.

The mentally unstable usually don't

*Enters thread about global warming*

"If they didn't ban alex Jones none of this would be happening, keep that same energy"

-New world fakkit

 

[newworldafro]

It's like you have no self-awareness.

I'm self aware.
My attempt to land a soft diss at breh is not an indicator of my "self-awareness" , whatever you mean by that. It's just a soft diss, not going hardbody.

I probably have posts where I agreed with breh and vice versa. Just conversation.

 

[Cynic]

Congratulations Google. You have made me even more cynical about the world.

I already knew the "Don't be evil" tagline was bullshyt, but I didn't realize they were so openly flaunting it.

Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers




These aren't just moderate groups. They're some of the real full-on bullshyt peddlers responsible for the worst work out there. And the Guardian is focusing on climate positions for some reason but these groups are full on fukk health care, fukk the poor, fukk black folk, fukk immigrants, etc. too.

The Guardian is a UK publication. Climate is of more importance from the anglo-saxon perspective
since they already have the NHS, a huge welfare state and no private prisons.

but this is more Google looking to cover it's bases with both sides of the political spectrum to call in
favors when conservative legislators act up .

Take a look at this

" Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries
of it's political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation"

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Liberal for publicity, conservative for the bottom line.
Same with colleges...preach socialism in the classroom to appeal to the youth while simultaneously being the most ruthlessly capitalist institution in America.

Dead on.

I thought Google was a company and can do what it wants, isn't that what yall said when companies were censoring conservatives on YouTube...

Noticing the enegy is different.

Did you see any of us advocate initiating legal action to stop Google from donating to right-wingers?

"Y'all claimed that other thing they did was legal, therefore you can't criticize them for doing something evil even though you agree that it also is completely legal!"

That's a really, really dumb argument on your part.

but this is more Google looking to cover it's bases with both sides of the political spectrum to call in
favors when conservative legislators act up .

Take a look at this

" Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries
of it's political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation"

I agree that's why they're doing it. They are openly funding evil organizations in order to call in favors on selfish legislation. The degree to which that violates "Don't be evil" is insane.

I would still shyt on them but without nearly as much energy if they just were just paying conservative lawmakers directly. Most of those fools are going to win reelection anyway so it doesn't have all that much impact. But every bit of money they dump into these propaganda mills directly makes the world worse.

 

[88m3]

judging by the responses in her I'm going to assume you guys are responding to an idiot or two making a lot of bad faith arguments