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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131572\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131572 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Brendan_Eich_Mozilla_Foundation_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LGBT rights advocates have been on a considerable roll the last few years. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court victories\u003c/a>, unprecedentedly favorable \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/support-for-same-sex-marriage-hits-new-high-half-say-constitution-guarantees-right/2014/03/04/f737e87e-a3e5-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion polls\u003c/a>, pop cultural \u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/looking#/\" target=\"_blank\">milestones\u003c/a>, and perhaps the most underrated achievement in contemporary American life -- the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/03/harvey-milk-stamp/\" target=\"_blank\">imprimatur\u003c/a> of the United States Postal Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, you might ask: Are we at the point where opposition to LGBT rights is so dépassé as to be unacceptable in the public sphere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can at least consider that possibility after the resignation of Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla, due to public pressure over a 2008 contribution he made to the campaign of Proposition 8 -- the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, later thrown out by an appellate court. Mozilla initially defended itself by \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/29/mozilla-supports-lgbt-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">publicly declarin\u003c/a>g its \"official support of equality and inclusion for LGBT people,\" but the furor did not die, gaining more momentum after the dating website OkCupid called on its users to dump Mozilla's Firefox browser because Eich was \"an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes right after another Silicon Valley exec, Jacquelline Fuller of Google, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/world-vision-google-board-member-resigns-gay-marriage_n_5085554.html?utm_hp_ref=religion\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a> from the board of World Vision, a Christian aid group, after its U.S. affiliate \u003ca href=\"http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">reversed a short-lived policy\u003c/a> of hiring Christians in legal, same-sex marriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Eich's resignation yesterday, KQED's Charla Bear \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/mozilla-ceo-resigns-over\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to tech pundit Kara Swisher\u003c/a>, who thought Eich's failure to apologize for the donation or to overtly recant his position spurred people inside the company to favor his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some opinions published in the aftermath of Eich's departure. Perhaps the most interesting comes from Andrew Sullivan, a longtime supporter of same-sex rights. Sullivan was fairly scathing in two posts criticizing the pressure put on Mozilla, and which he titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hounding of a Heretic\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop. 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. ... Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in another \u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-a-heretic-ctd/\" target=\"_blank\">post \u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He did not understand that in order to be a CEO of a company, you have to renounce your heresy! There is only one permissible opinion at Mozilla, and all dissidents must be purged! Yep, that’s left-liberal tolerance in a nut-shell. No, he wasn’t a victim of government censorship or intimidation. He was a victim of the free market in which people can choose to express their opinions by boycotts, free speech and the like. He still has his full First Amendment rights. But what we’re talking about is the obvious and ugly intolerance of parts of the gay movement, who have reacted to years of being subjected to social obloquy by returning the favor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sullivan notes that his \"in-tray is inundated with your dissents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one of them, from HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-at-Large Michelangelo Signorile, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Andrew Sullivan, 'Left-Liberal Intolerance' Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(I)t wasn't the Prop 8 contribution, and Eich's refusal to renounce it, that eventually did Eich in. He was \u003ca href=\"http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/mozilla-is-messy/\" target=\"_hplink\">being defended\u003c/a> by company executives last week and throughout the early part of this week, even as the dating site OKCupid \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/03/okcupid-blocks-firefox-users-over-ceo-brendan-eichs-anti-gay-views.html%20Edit\" target=\"_hplink\">had urged users\u003c/a> to boycott Firefox. Eich even \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/04/eichint.html\" target=\"_hplink\">gave an interview\u003c/a> on Tuesday suggesting he was staying put. Eich only announced he was stepping down after it was revealed late Wednesday that he'd \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controversial-mozilla-ceo-made-donations-right-wing-candidates-brendan-eich\" target=\"_hplink\">given money\u003c/a> to Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign in 1992, and later to Ron Paul's campaign. Suddenly, in addition to defending a CEO who gave money to homophobic efforts, Mozilla would have to defend a CEO who supported Buchanan, a far-right extremist and isolationist who's been accused of racist and anti-Semitic attacks, and who also was, rightly, driven off MSNBC -- though that took \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/17/427875/why-msnbc-dumped-pat-buchanan-his-10-most-outrageous-statements/\" target=\"_hplink\">years longer\u003c/a> to accomplish than the few weeks it took to purge Alec Baldwin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More editorials from around the Web:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\u003c/a> (Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eich wasn't a prominent pusher of Prop. 8. He didn't mix his politics with business, in which case critics would have grounds to cite the nexus between Eich's personal beliefs and corporate success. He wrote a personal check for $1,000. In tech circles, that's snack money....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, winning has made some advocates ... less tolerant, not more so. It's not enough that they won, they have to make opponents grovel in penance. No need for stockades in 2014 when you can dangle stock options and flame nonbelievers via Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's like political time travel. Advocates demand that public figures renounce their 2008 opposition to same-sex marriage as illegitimate. If \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Barack+Obama%22\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Hillary+Clinton%22\">Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> could do it, surely soulless CEOs can do it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me posit that there were some antigay bigots who supported Prop. 8. But there also were a lot of Californians who wrestled with the issue but chose to stick with a more traditional conclusion. A yes vote didn't mean they hate their gay friends and family members. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just a Reminder: The Campaign for Prop 8 Was Unprecedentedly Cruel\u003c/a> (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Prop 8 is now dead, and because its passage was largely overshadowed by President Barack Obama’s election victory, it’s easy to forget the vicious tactics of the pro-Prop 8 campaign. Or, I should say, it’s easy to forget them if you’re not gay—because almost every gay person I know remembers the passage of Prop 8 as the most traumatic and degrading anti-gay event in recent American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The tactics used by pro-Prop 8 campaigners were not merely homophobic. They were laser-focused to exploit Californians’ deepest and most irrational fears about gay people, indoctrinating an entire state with cruelly anti-gay propaganda. Early on, Prop 8’s supporters decided to focus their campaign primarily on children, stoking parents’ fears about gay people brainwashing their kids with pro-gay messages or, implicitly, turning their children gay. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article with commercials\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_25489008/quinn-brendan-eich-mozillas-former-chief-executive-needed\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Quinn, Mozilla's former chief executive, needed to tell us more\u003c/a> (Michelle Quinn, San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm sorry to see Mozilla's Brendan Eich go, but in this era of transparency, he didn't do enough to save his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He failed to realize that these days, the CEO of a tech company is more like a politician than a business executive, operating in the glare of intense public scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in not explaining why he made a $1,000 donation to support Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, or clarifying his views now, he let the bubbling controversy over his stance fester and reach a point in which his only option was to step down....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people will say a mob drummed him out of the Internet village. That intolerance and political correctness ruled the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not it. Like an elected official, he needed to say more about who he is, to earn credibility. He needed to do that for himself and for Mozilla. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_25489008/quinn-brendan-eich-mozillas-former-chief-executive-needed\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Purge the Bigots\u003c/a> (William Saletan, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of my colleagues are celebrating. They call Eich a bigot who got what he deserved. I agree. But let’s not stop here. If we’re serious about enforcing the new standard, thousands of other employees who donated to the same anti-gay ballot measure must be punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people gave money to the campaign for Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that declared, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” You can download the entire list, via the Los Angeles Times, as a compressed spreadsheet. (Click the link that says, “Download CSV.”) Each row lists the donor’s employer. If you organize the data by company, you can add up the total number of donors and dollars that came from people associated with that company....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-seven companies in the database are linked to more than 1,300 employees who gave nearly $1 million in combined contributions to the campaign for Prop 8. Twenty-five tech companies are linked to 435 employees who gave more than $300,000. Many of these employees gave $1,000 apiece, if not more. Some, like Eich, are probably senior executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do these bigots still have jobs? Let’s go get them....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re serious about taking down corporate officers who supported Proposition 8, and boycotting employers who promote them, we'd better get cracking on the rest of the list. Otherwise, perhaps we should put down the pitchforks. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/okcupids_gay_rights_stunt_has_its_limits_taking_a_deeper_look_at_the_savvy_ploy/\" target=\"_blank\">OkCupid's gay rights stunt has its limits\u003c/a> (Josh Eidelson, Salon)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Eich was an understandable target; consumer pressure on a CEO over a political donation is infinitely more defensible than \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/10/18/kochs_to_workers_vote_mitt_or_else/\">termination\u003c/a> of a lower-level employee over a bumper sticker. But Eich was also an easy target, one who exemplifies the way boycott talk gets focused on whether a CEO shares our personal convictions, rather than on how a company wields its power (it also illustrates the \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/sorry_frank_bruni_liz_cheney_is_no_worse_than_congress/\">special status\u003c/a> of gay marriage in the media). \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/thats_cold_whole_foods_polar_vortex_firing_spurs_chicago_strike/\">Firing\u003c/a> a mom for staying home with her son during the polar vortex is a better reason to boycott Whole Foods than its CEO’s anti-Obamacare O\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/whole-foods-ceo-obamacare-fascism_n_2488029.html\">p-Ed\u003c/a>; Chick-fil-A’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/chick_fil_a_too_sinful_to_fry_chicken/\">alleged efforts\u003c/a>to impose Christian conservatism on its employees should alarm us more than its CEO’s comments to the press. While Eich’s 2008 donation is a legitimate cause for consternation – and a worthier one than, say, a quote to a reporter – it’s a worse basis on which to choose a browser than how the company currently stacks up in its treatment of LGBT employees. The best potential effect of scrutiny over an old donation would be extracting concessions on a company’s current policies and politics.CEOs aren’t gods who earn our fealty or identification based on admiration. Rather, they – and more important, the corporations they represent – are economic and political actors who should be pressured to redirect – or, better, redistribute – their power toward progressive ends. \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/okcupids_gay_rights_stunt_has_its_limits_taking_a_deeper_look_at_the_savvy_ploy/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/03/brendan_eich_why_mozilla_s_ceo_had_to_resign_over_gay_marriage_views.html\" target=\"_blank\">If You're Against Gay Marriage, You're a Bad CEO\u003c/a> (Will Oremus, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The notion that your political views shouldn’t affect your employment is a persuasive one. Where would we be as a democracy if Republicans were barred from jobs at Democrat-led companies, or vice versa?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>But this is different. Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan. It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others. An organization like Mozilla might tolerate that in an underling, and it might even tolerate it in a CTO. But in a CEO—the ultimate decision-maker and public face of an organization—it sends an awful message. That’s doubly so for an organization devoted to openness and freedom on the Web—not to mention one with numerous gay employees...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an even bigger problem for a tech company in Silicon Valley, where competition for top engineers is fierce. Mozilla’s edge over goliaths like Google and Facebook is that it offers employees a chance to work for an organization whose values they can truly believe in. A bigoted boss, no matter how well-meaning, undermines that appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/03/brendan_eich_why_mozilla_s_ceo_had_to_resign_over_gay_marriage_views.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mozillas-gay-marriage-litmus-test-violates-liberal-values/360156/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values\u003c/a> (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for (Eich's) ouster were premised on the notion that all support for Proposition 8 was hateful, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> that a CEO should be judged not just by his or her conduct in the professional realm, but also by political causes he or she supports as a private citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that attitude spreads, it will damage our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider an issue like abortion, which divides the country in a particularly intense way, with opponents earnestly regarding it as the murder of an innocent baby and many abortion-rights supporters earnestly believing that a fetus is not a human life, and that outlawing it is a horrific assault on a woman's bodily autonomy. The political debate over abortion is likely to continue long past all of our deaths. Would American society be better off if stakeholders in various corporations began to investigate leadership's political activities on abortion and to lobby for the termination of anyone who took what they regard to be the immoral, damaging position?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn't difficult to see the wisdom in inculcating the norm that the political and the professional are separate realms, for following it makes so many people and institutions better off in a diverse, pluralistic society. The contrary approach would certainly have a chilling effect on political speech and civic participation, as does Mozilla's behavior toward Eich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its implications are particularly worrisome because whatever you think of gay marriage, the general practice of punishing people in business for bygone political donations is most likely to entrench powerful interests and weaken the ability of the powerless to challenge the status quo. There is very likely hypocrisy at work too. Does anyone doubt that had a business fired a CEO six years ago for making a political donation \u003cem>against\u003c/em> Prop 8, liberals silent during this controversy (or supportive of the resignation) would've argued that contributions have nothing to do with a CEO's ability to do his job? They'd have called that firing an illiberal outrage, but today they're averse to vocally disagreeing with allies. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mozillas-gay-marriage-litmus-test-violates-liberal-values/360156/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131572\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-131572 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Brendan_Eich_Mozilla_Foundation_official_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendan Eich (Mozilla)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LGBT rights advocates have been on a considerable roll the last few years. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court victories\u003c/a>, unprecedentedly favorable \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/support-for-same-sex-marriage-hits-new-high-half-say-constitution-guarantees-right/2014/03/04/f737e87e-a3e5-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">public opinion polls\u003c/a>, pop cultural \u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/looking#/\" target=\"_blank\">milestones\u003c/a>, and perhaps the most underrated achievement in contemporary American life -- the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/03/harvey-milk-stamp/\" target=\"_blank\">imprimatur\u003c/a> of the United States Postal Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, you might ask: Are we at the point where opposition to LGBT rights is so dépassé as to be unacceptable in the public sphere?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can at least consider that possibility after the resignation of Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla, due to public pressure over a 2008 contribution he made to the campaign of Proposition 8 -- the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, later thrown out by an appellate court. Mozilla initially defended itself by \u003ca href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/29/mozilla-supports-lgbt-equality/\" target=\"_blank\">publicly declarin\u003c/a>g its \"official support of equality and inclusion for LGBT people,\" but the furor did not die, gaining more momentum after the dating website OkCupid called on its users to dump Mozilla's Firefox browser because Eich was \"an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes right after another Silicon Valley exec, Jacquelline Fuller of Google, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/world-vision-google-board-member-resigns-gay-marriage_n_5085554.html?utm_hp_ref=religion\" target=\"_blank\">resigned\u003c/a> from the board of World Vision, a Christian aid group, after its U.S. affiliate \u003ca href=\"http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">reversed a short-lived policy\u003c/a> of hiring Christians in legal, same-sex marriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Eich's resignation yesterday, KQED's Charla Bear \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/mozilla-ceo-resigns-over\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to tech pundit Kara Swisher\u003c/a>, who thought Eich's failure to apologize for the donation or to overtly recant his position spurred people inside the company to favor his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some opinions published in the aftermath of Eich's departure. Perhaps the most interesting comes from Andrew Sullivan, a longtime supporter of same-sex rights. Sullivan was fairly scathing in two posts criticizing the pressure put on Mozilla, and which he titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hounding of a Heretic\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop. 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. ... Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And in another \u003ca href=\"http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-a-heretic-ctd/\" target=\"_blank\">post \u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He did not understand that in order to be a CEO of a company, you have to renounce your heresy! There is only one permissible opinion at Mozilla, and all dissidents must be purged! Yep, that’s left-liberal tolerance in a nut-shell. No, he wasn’t a victim of government censorship or intimidation. He was a victim of the free market in which people can choose to express their opinions by boycotts, free speech and the like. He still has his full First Amendment rights. But what we’re talking about is the obvious and ugly intolerance of parts of the gay movement, who have reacted to years of being subjected to social obloquy by returning the favor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Sullivan notes that his \"in-tray is inundated with your dissents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's one of them, from HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-at-Large Michelangelo Signorile, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Andrew Sullivan, 'Left-Liberal Intolerance' Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(I)t wasn't the Prop 8 contribution, and Eich's refusal to renounce it, that eventually did Eich in. He was \u003ca href=\"http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/mozilla-is-messy/\" target=\"_hplink\">being defended\u003c/a> by company executives last week and throughout the early part of this week, even as the dating site OKCupid \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/03/okcupid-blocks-firefox-users-over-ceo-brendan-eichs-anti-gay-views.html%20Edit\" target=\"_hplink\">had urged users\u003c/a> to boycott Firefox. Eich even \u003ca href=\"http://www.towleroad.com/2014/04/eichint.html\" target=\"_hplink\">gave an interview\u003c/a> on Tuesday suggesting he was staying put. Eich only announced he was stepping down after it was revealed late Wednesday that he'd \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controversial-mozilla-ceo-made-donations-right-wing-candidates-brendan-eich\" target=\"_hplink\">given money\u003c/a> to Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign in 1992, and later to Ron Paul's campaign. Suddenly, in addition to defending a CEO who gave money to homophobic efforts, Mozilla would have to defend a CEO who supported Buchanan, a far-right extremist and isolationist who's been accused of racist and anti-Semitic attacks, and who also was, rightly, driven off MSNBC -- though that took \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/17/427875/why-msnbc-dumped-pat-buchanan-his-10-most-outrageous-statements/\" target=\"_hplink\">years longer\u003c/a> to accomplish than the few weeks it took to purge Alec Baldwin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/dear-andrew-sullivan-left_b_5088417.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More editorials from around the Web:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet is tolerant. Don't agree? Keep out.\u003c/a> (Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eich wasn't a prominent pusher of Prop. 8. He didn't mix his politics with business, in which case critics would have grounds to cite the nexus between Eich's personal beliefs and corporate success. He wrote a personal check for $1,000. In tech circles, that's snack money....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, winning has made some advocates ... less tolerant, not more so. It's not enough that they won, they have to make opponents grovel in penance. No need for stockades in 2014 when you can dangle stock options and flame nonbelievers via Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's like political time travel. Advocates demand that public figures renounce their 2008 opposition to same-sex marriage as illegitimate. If \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Barack+Obama%22\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=opinion%2Fsaunders&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Hillary+Clinton%22\">Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> could do it, surely soulless CEOs can do it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me posit that there were some antigay bigots who supported Prop. 8. But there also were a lot of Californians who wrestled with the issue but chose to stick with a more traditional conclusion. A yes vote didn't mean they hate their gay friends and family members. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/The-Internet-is-tolerant-Don-t-agree-Keep-out-5371850.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/201/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just a Reminder: The Campaign for Prop 8 Was Unprecedentedly Cruel\u003c/a> (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Prop 8 is now dead, and because its passage was largely overshadowed by President Barack Obama’s election victory, it’s easy to forget the vicious tactics of the pro-Prop 8 campaign. Or, I should say, it’s easy to forget them if you’re not gay—because almost every gay person I know remembers the passage of Prop 8 as the most traumatic and degrading anti-gay event in recent American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The tactics used by pro-Prop 8 campaigners were not merely homophobic. They were laser-focused to exploit Californians’ deepest and most irrational fears about gay people, indoctrinating an entire state with cruelly anti-gay propaganda. 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If we’re serious about enforcing the new standard, thousands of other employees who donated to the same anti-gay ballot measure must be punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people gave money to the campaign for Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that declared, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” You can download the entire list, via the Los Angeles Times, as a compressed spreadsheet. (Click the link that says, “Download CSV.”) Each row lists the donor’s employer. If you organize the data by company, you can add up the total number of donors and dollars that came from people associated with that company....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-seven companies in the database are linked to more than 1,300 employees who gave nearly $1 million in combined contributions to the campaign for Prop 8. Twenty-five tech companies are linked to 435 employees who gave more than $300,000. Many of these employees gave $1,000 apiece, if not more. Some, like Eich, are probably senior executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do these bigots still have jobs? Let’s go get them....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re serious about taking down corporate officers who supported Proposition 8, and boycotting employers who promote them, we'd better get cracking on the rest of the list. Otherwise, perhaps we should put down the pitchforks. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/okcupids_gay_rights_stunt_has_its_limits_taking_a_deeper_look_at_the_savvy_ploy/\" target=\"_blank\">OkCupid's gay rights stunt has its limits\u003c/a> (Josh Eidelson, Salon)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Eich was an understandable target; consumer pressure on a CEO over a political donation is infinitely more defensible than \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/10/18/kochs_to_workers_vote_mitt_or_else/\">termination\u003c/a> of a lower-level employee over a bumper sticker. But Eich was also an easy target, one who exemplifies the way boycott talk gets focused on whether a CEO shares our personal convictions, rather than on how a company wields its power (it also illustrates the \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/sorry_frank_bruni_liz_cheney_is_no_worse_than_congress/\">special status\u003c/a> of gay marriage in the media). \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/thats_cold_whole_foods_polar_vortex_firing_spurs_chicago_strike/\">Firing\u003c/a> a mom for staying home with her son during the polar vortex is a better reason to boycott Whole Foods than its CEO’s anti-Obamacare O\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/whole-foods-ceo-obamacare-fascism_n_2488029.html\">p-Ed\u003c/a>; Chick-fil-A’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/chick_fil_a_too_sinful_to_fry_chicken/\">alleged efforts\u003c/a>to impose Christian conservatism on its employees should alarm us more than its CEO’s comments to the press. While Eich’s 2008 donation is a legitimate cause for consternation – and a worthier one than, say, a quote to a reporter – it’s a worse basis on which to choose a browser than how the company currently stacks up in its treatment of LGBT employees. The best potential effect of scrutiny over an old donation would be extracting concessions on a company’s current policies and politics.CEOs aren’t gods who earn our fealty or identification based on admiration. Rather, they – and more important, the corporations they represent – are economic and political actors who should be pressured to redirect – or, better, redistribute – their power toward progressive ends. \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/okcupids_gay_rights_stunt_has_its_limits_taking_a_deeper_look_at_the_savvy_ploy/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/03/brendan_eich_why_mozilla_s_ceo_had_to_resign_over_gay_marriage_views.html\" target=\"_blank\">If You're Against Gay Marriage, You're a Bad CEO\u003c/a> (Will Oremus, Slate)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The notion that your political views shouldn’t affect your employment is a persuasive one. Where would we be as a democracy if Republicans were barred from jobs at Democrat-led companies, or vice versa?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>But this is different. Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan. It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others. An organization like Mozilla might tolerate that in an underling, and it might even tolerate it in a CTO. But in a CEO—the ultimate decision-maker and public face of an organization—it sends an awful message. That’s doubly so for an organization devoted to openness and freedom on the Web—not to mention one with numerous gay employees...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an even bigger problem for a tech company in Silicon Valley, where competition for top engineers is fierce. Mozilla’s edge over goliaths like Google and Facebook is that it offers employees a chance to work for an organization whose values they can truly believe in. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/google2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. 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Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short -- yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"72b4bf907427a06d75a90f0cff481c5f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. Why fund Muni on the backs of poor and working class people while rich corporations use public infrastructure for pennies?\" the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents' attorney Richard Drury told the board there should be an environmental review first. \"You don't approve a project and then find out what are the impacts by measuring air quality, pedestrian safety risks, after the buses are already out of the gate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short -- yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. Why fund Muni on the backs of poor and working class people while rich corporations use public infrastructure for pennies?\" the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS2361_108330194-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Julie Samuels, from Engine, moderated yet another panel discussion in San Francisco on the challenge of expanding the labor pool in tech. Right off the bat, she acknowledged the argument that companies should do more to find and cultivate homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to find good engineers, and there are two sides of this. It’s the businesses who can’t find people, but it’s also the people who want to be there and can’t get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held at a start-up incubator called \u003ca href=\"http://www.parisoma.com/\">PariSoma\u003c/a>, and organized by Fwd.us. The crowd was young, hip and international. Mexican native Miguel Cervera is a software engineer at \u003ca href=\"@MiguelCervera\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Over sliders and beer, the 23-year-old expressed distress over the lack of movement on immigration reform.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see for the people to stop thinking that we are coming here to steal jobs,” Cervera said. “As an immigrant, that’s how I feel, that –- maybe not here in the city, the city is really open in that aspect — but in other places, I feel like if I am Mexican, and I am coming here, they think I am here to steal some other U.S. citizens’ jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even outside Silicon Valley, American opinion may be changing faster than Cervera realizes. A February bipartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/poll_support_immigration_reform\">poll\u003c/a> that Fwd.us likes to quote found a thousand likely general election voters nationwide overwhelmingly support immigration reform. Whatever happens in D.C. – or doesn’t – Silicon Valley money is working hard to keep immigration reform near the top of the legislative agenda. Patent reform, however, could graduate from the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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