Microsoft held an employee town hall today. I obtained a copy of Microsoft President Brad Smith's remarkably candid explanation of why Microsoft will continue to fund politicians whose conduct is completely at odds with the company's stated values https://notes.pinboard.in/u:maciej/90342e46caf768b7329d

Picture of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella with an unidentified Windows user from Queens

One reason we're talking about Microsoft here is that their leaders are at least willing to engage with employees about the PAC. Not so at Google, Facebook, or Amazon, whose political giving is even less defensible. Employees have the power to defund all this and should use it

A while back I compiled this long list of Microsoft's public statements on issues like immigration, climate, and LGBTQ rights, juxtaposed with their actual political giving https://idlewords.com/microsoft_words_actions.html