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There are people at every large software company that donated to one of the sides of the political battle. Some of them may have received a promotion after the fact. Does that mean that you should boycott those companies too? (Google, Apple, etc.)

After all, after people get paid from their job, shouldn't it be their right that they can use their money as they please?

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> After all, after people get paid from their job, shouldn't it be their right that they can use their money as they please?

"He’s certainly allowed to have his opinion, of course, but I’m allowed to judge his actions of supporting the cause financially."

If they are promoted to CEO, then... yes. Hence why we were building apps for it knowing full-well that he was a homophobic CTO. CEO is a whole other level, and was our personal line.

>After all, after people get paid from their job, shouldn't it be their right that they can use their money as they please?

If they spent that money attacking your family, would you be willing to do business with them?

I will eat my proverbial hat if you can find one executive from a top company that never promoted taxes for the income range my family is into.

I assure you that marriage is an entirely different ballgame than raising some taxes. Did you read the entire post?

There are a number of companies who have executives who make business decisions that are morally questionable. I have often said its best not to use those companies, but often it's not possible.

Boycotts are effective: I have participated in one against Australia's Kyle Sandilands. You won't always be able to do this, however.

I would be very surprised if in an average day you don't buy product or services from a company that has donated or has C-level executives that have donated to some cause that attacks you or your family. I know of at least one company that donates to a group because of the group's work in China that is directly attacking the families of their customers in the US.

Before this goes to my personal views: I'm not Californian so I don't vote there and I am one of those small government folks that believe the government should only do civil unions (no mention of marriage) as a matter of contract law between two or more consenting adults.

> I would be very surprised if in an average day you don't buy product or services from a company that has donated or has C-level executives that have donated to some cause that attacks you or your family.

I'd actually be surprised if this is the case. What possible causes would they donate to that will count as an 'attack'?

The case I site is an environmental group, but there are actually quite a few different attacks (lawsuit based) that happen in the US.

Is the argument then they are hurting the environment or want to ergo are attacking your family indirectly?

It was direct lawsuits (not me, just a company I know).

political parties

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