Posted on 03/26/2021 8:21:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has declined donations from Google and Facebook because of the companies’ censoring of persons and groups with conservative points of view.
Outgoing foundation president Kay C. James sent letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai explaining that the Heritage Foundation could “not in good conscience accept money” from companies that suppress conservative speech and content.
Heritage turned down a $225,000 donation from Google and returned a $150,000 donation from Facebook in October 2020.
James made it clear to the Big Tech companies that her organization is assisting Congress to revise antitrust laws, which currently protects the companies from liability for content published on their platforms.
“Heritage is in the midst of reviewing these proposals, and the last thing we need is for anyone to think that our conclusions have in any way been influenced by a relatively small donation from your company,” she wrote.
The letters to Zuckerberg and Pichai came a day before the CEOs of Big Tech gave testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
While the federal government has a handful of antitrust laws they have introduced, state-level officials have also begun holding the Big Tech companies to account, with many governors and attorney generals filing lawsuits and changing policies to rein in the companies and require more transparency in their user policies.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a multistate lawsuit against Google, alleging antitrust violations and deceptive acts by the tech giant, with five additional states and territories recently joining his state’s effort: Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada, and Puerto Rico. States already named on the lawsuit include Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah.
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What?!?
There are people of principle, in America?!?
Heritage Foundation has consistently been the real deal where rubber meets road.
They wouldn’t take the bribe!! HAHAHAAHA!
Bullshit. Mike Pence is part of their tribe. For that reason, I dumped my membership.
Sundar Pichai...originally of Chennai, India...
Ms. James and the Conservative Heritage Foundation have my respect for this move. I’ll learn more about this group - sounds like they can use plenty of contributions from individuals to make up for the amount they’ve turned down from the tech oligarchs.
Heck, those donations are chump change.
hmm, didn’t know that
La Cosa Nostramerica was told no?
Pence is a sleazy asshole.
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Gutsy. Way to go. Farcebook and boongoogle are trying to buy their way back. It is over for them. Financially destroy them. Any legal way. They are just personal information miners and brokers. Except only espouse leftie positions. Dont want to offend their millenial sjws do they? Sorry boys.
I make my Amazon purchases through Smile and contribute to Heritage through them...eases the guilt a little.
They had to refuse, otherwise we wouldn’t trust them when they recommend mediocre judges that won’t defend our elections.
So what?
We’re not given much choice, are we?
Long Live The Heritage Foundation!
Interesting to see that Kay Coles James has recently resigned, from Heritage Foundation.
They must’ve been getting a lot of push back over her comments, of the past year....
Kay Coles James: George Floyd’s senseless killing – end racism that afflicts America’s soul like a cancer
Tucker Carlson called her out, good...
Kay Coles James, who is the president of the Heritage Foundation — that’s the largest conservative think tank in the country. You may have sent them money, hopefully for the last time. Kay Coles James wrote a long scream denouncing America as an irredeemably racist nation: “How many times will protests have to occur?”
Got that? “Have to occur.” Like the rest of us caused this by our sinfulness.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/tucker-carlsons-misleading-attack-on-prominent-conservatives/
National Review defended James, over Tucker (no surprise!).
I dropped my membership when Kay James went against PDJT on his border emegency declaration.
She said...
Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James released a statement on the decision.
“Conservatives are disappointed in Congress and frustrated that its failure has led to today’s action by the president,” she said. “The omnibus legislation coupled with today’s announcement is an unacceptable resolution to a genuine national crisis.”
Trump declared the national emergency after Congress passed a spending deal that included $1.375 billion for new border wall funding—far less than the $5.7 billion that the president requested.
That’s when I read more about her, and found out she was a former Bush Admin person.
That helped to explain her statement regarding Trump’s border emergency.
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