Posted Nov 13, 2018, 4:55 PM
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Originally Posted by chris08876
This article jabs on conservative cities, on why they didn't get picked: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/opinions/amazon-hq2-cities-learn-a-lesson-filipovic/index.html
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States including Texas and North Carolina wind up toward the bottom of the list, despite being hubs of excellent higher education with progressive cities like Austin and Raleigh-Durham.
Those values also matter. The inexplicable hostility among many conservatives toward public transport, for example, means that liberal cities in liberal states had a built-in advantage over conservatives ones in the HQ2 selection process -- Amazon, understandably, would look for good infrastructure and public transportation options for its employees.
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Companies like Amazon also rely on a diverse workforce, and likely don't want to be caught in the middle of squabbles over whether transgender people can pee in peace. And no doubt Jeff Bezos was watching when the lieutenant governor of Georgia went after Delta -- a company headquartered in his state -- and threatened their tax breaks for no longer giving special perks to NRA members. |
I'm going to repost here something I posted in the Trump thread just to make the point that any suggestion the tech industry is tolerant of diverse political views is nonsense. It's just that the dominant--and strongly enforced--political view is consistent with CNN's and at odds with conservatism:
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Why Did Facebook Fire a Top Executive? Hint: It Had Something to Do With Trump
By Kirsten Grind and Keach Hagey
Updated Nov. 11, 2018 8:16 p.m. ET
Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group.
His donation sparked a backlash from his colleagues. Six months later, he was out . . . .
Mr. Luckey, it turns out, was put on leave, then fired, according to people familiar with the matter. More recently, he has told people the reason was his support for Donald Trump and the furor that his political beliefs sparked within Facebook and Silicon Valley, some of those people say.
Internal Facebook emails suggest the matter was discussed at the highest levels of the company. In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the donation simmered, Facebook executives including Mr. Zuckerberg pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey’s yearslong support of Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the conversations and internal emails viewed by The Wall Street Journal . . . .
Mr. Luckey, who is 26 years old, hired an employment lawyer who argued to Facebook that it had violated California law, according to people familiar with the conversations, in pressuring the executive to voice support for Mr. Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity.
Then Mr. Luckey and his lawyer negotiated a payout of at least $100 million, representing an acceleration of stock awards and bonuses he would have received through July 2019, plus cash, according to the people familiar with the matter. The stock awards and bonuses were a result of selling his virtual-reality company, Oculus VR, to Facebook in 2014 for more than $2 billion, a deal that netted him a total of about $600 million . . . .
Mr. Luckey’s donation and the perception that he might be associated with a group that at times traded in misogynistic and white-supremacist messages, as some news stories reported, ignited a firestorm. Facebook employees expressed anger about Mr. Luckey on internal message boards and at a weekly town hall meeting in late September 2016, questioning why he was still employed, according to people familiar with the complaints.
“Multiple women have literally teared up in front of me in the last few days,” an engineering director, Srinivas Narayanan, wrote in one internal post following the meeting. Mr. Narayanan didn’t respond to requests for comment . . . .
Facebook launched a human-resources investigation, which in 2016 found that Mr. Luckey hadn’t violated internal policies, say people familiar with the investigation. His performance reviews were consistently positive, including his last in June 2016, those people say . . . .
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-did-fac...hing-to-do-with-trump-1541965245?tesla=y
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