Tech giants celebrate gay marriage, continue to fund anti-LGBT politicians

Source: Pando

... While publicly telegraphing their support of gay marriage, the fact is several tech giants, including Facebook and Google, have made political donations or offered material support to politicians and political groups that have worked to jeopardize and threaten the rights of gay Americans.

... According to the Center for Responsive Politics, in 2010 Google’s political action committee or PAC gave $189,500 to Democratic Congressional campaigns and $153,500 to Republicans. By 2012, that ratio had evened out, with $430,500 to Democrats, and $445,000 to Republicans, and in 2014 Google gave $515,200 to Democrats and $521,800 to Republicans.

This trend follows for a number of major tech firms including Facebook and eBay. And these more-or-less evenly bipartisan cash hauls run counter to the narrative that tech firms are liberal hippie utopians -- and, for that matter, the narrative that Silicon Valley has gone full conservative-libertarian.

... Tea Party darling Ted Cruz (R-TX), the self-appointed king of racist, fact-denying homophobes the world over, is among the more unlikely politicians to have received a share of Silicon Valley’s astounding profits. ... Google, despite all of its free love celebrations last week, gave $10,000 to Cruz in 2012 and $2,500 in 2014 through the company’s PAC. Other Cruz donors include Facebook’s PAC which gave $3,500 to Cruz in 2012, eBay’s PAC which gave $1,500 in 2014, and Cisco’s PAC which gave $2,500 in 2012.

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