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97 Tech Companies Including Apple, Google, Microsoft Call Travel Ban Unlawful In Rare Coordinated Legal Action (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a WashingtonPost report: Silicon Valley is stepping up its confrontation with the Trump administration. On Sunday night, technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and many others filed a legal brief opposing the administration's contentious entry ban. The move represents a rare coordinated action across a broad swath of the industry (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternate source) -- 97 companies in total -- and demonstrates the depth of animosity toward the Trump ban. The amicus brief was filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which is expected to rule within a few days on an appeal by the administration after a federal judge in Seattle issued late Friday a temporary restraining order putting the entry ban on hold. The brief comes at the end of a week of nationwide protests against the plan -- as well as a flurry of activity in Silicon Valley, a region that sees immigration as central to its identity as an innovation hub.From a TechCrunch report: Notably absent from the list of 97 companies are several who met with Trump prior to his inauguration: Amazon, Oracle, IBM, SpaceX and Tesla. Although Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was highly critical of Trump prior to his election, he has not spoken out against the immigration policy. Oracle CEO Safra Catz is serving as an advisor to the Trump transition team, while SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has defended his decision to remain on an advisory council for Trump.
all those big wig IT executives that want to open the floodgates for refugees open their homes and guest houses to refugees, they can sleep in your spare bedrooms and eat your food, use your couch and TV, or if that inconveniences you too much maybe you can buy homes and supply them with the money to live since you want them here so god damned bad
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
The companies that spent $MILLIONS for superbowl ads critical of Trump's policies should tell you something - hating on Trump has gone mainstream. There's a reason why.
Hopefully he won't be impeached and replaced by someone more able to push the alt-right agenda. His twitter account alone does more damage to his cause than everything else combined. The question now is, can the republicans survive him?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
And other citizens aren't uncomfortable with people like you, so what's your point? I hope Trump stays in office the full 4 years - he is doing so much damage to racists, xenophobes, and the far right that he'll be a far better purge than anything that the left could have come up with.
When companies spend millions on superbowl ads to publicly give him and his policies the middle finger, they're doing it because their marketing teams are saying "this is what the public REALLY wants." His actions have helped unite people against anti-muslim and anti-immigrant policies.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Something tells me this is not out of the goodness of their heart or the will to uphold the law.
I question their motives greatly and I would suggest that they should not be involving themselves in the political arena to this degree.
I've not checked but I'm guessing most of these companies hold SJW principles too dearly?
If you have an issue with the list of countries affected, you may want to take up with the adminstration who made the list (in 2015) or the president who signed it (Obama).
Trump put a temporary travel restriction on countries that Barak Hussein Obama identified as sources of terrorists.
I have no opinion on the policy either way, because I'm not FBI and don't have the data in front of me. I *am* of the opinion that we should discuss the facts as they are, not pretend that Trump made the list this month when it was in fact made by Obama's people two years ago.