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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Wasn’t Wozniak the idiot who couldn’t dance a lick and made a total ass of himself ?
Well, I suppose the social media millennial idiots may care................
“...We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet...”
Did Zuckerburg get this memo???
......and that’s why their boy, Barry, is handing over control of the internet to a world body?
Finally, we believe that government plays an important role in the technology economy by investing in infrastructure, education and scientific research.
They don't want an end to the government gravy train that makes them billions.
As someone who worked in Silicon Valley for 15 years, I can tell you the these CEOs barely know what is really going on in the trenches.
Since 2002, messages and status reports are being filtered by middle management so it appears to executive staff that all is going well.
Craig Barrett was almost thrown out by employees at Intel because of this.
He decided to retire before employees showed up with torches and pitchforks.
Right now the only thing Silicon Valley CEOs worry about is the END of Silicon Valley.
The computer downturn is just the beginning.
Who cares?
Diversity comes from everywhere unless you are over 40 then you are a piece of crap.
F all of those companies.
Spot on!
I could care less what the Silly-Cons Valley-Boys think or do.
I just wish they'd develop robots that would take over their own jobs.....and force them to go out and get jobs picking lettuce in the fields just south of San Francisco.
Leni
Of course they are condemning Trump they LOVE HB1 visas!!!!
e-lemmings
They’re so gay…..
The H-1B visa whores have spoken.
diversity my arse.....I understand that its practically a closed shop with Indians and Pakis taking all the jobs.....no diversity in that...
So, 140 1%ers are against Trump?
Hey, Bernie supporters - over here!
Low paid visa foreign workers are their strength, that is for sure.
Silicon Valley needs stricter enforcement of diversity requirements in hiring, and a lot more Section 8 apartment housing.
“Wasn’t Wozniak the idiot who couldn’t dance a lick and made a total ass of himself ?”
Yep, that would be him.
Who gives a flip what a bunch of anti-social asshats and aspergics think about anything?
Their ‘disrupt everything’ antics have GOT to stop.
thanks I am reading your two links
Jewish social media ubermagnates
A Polish American hippie tech pioneer
Armenian tech wizard commie
And an Alabama asshole who should know better
A cornhusker who again should know better
What a multicultural gut pile of rich progressive self haters
Why are tech people so screwy?
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