Another tech giant is parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Yahoo's withdrawal from the group was confirmed in a statement to Common Cause late Wednesday.

"We've decided to discontinue our membership in ALEC. We periodically review our membership in organizations and, at this time, we will no longer participate in the ALEC Task Force on Communications and Technology,” the company stated.

The controversial conservative policy group has come under fire in recent years for promoting pro-business legislation that rolls back protections on civil rights, environmental, labor and public health laws, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. ALEC also generated or disseminated voter suppression legislation and helped craft the “stand your ground” laws that were adopted in 31 states, including Florida, where teenager Trayvon Martin was shot to death.

Microsoft, Facebook and Google recently distanced themselves from ALEC.

A Facebook spokesperson said the company was unlikely to renew its membership in 2015 because of disagreements on "some key issues," National Journal reported.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt even went so far as to call its affiliation with ALEC "a mistake."

“Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place,” Schmidt said on Diane Rehm’s syndicated call-in radio show. “And so we should not be aligned with such people — they’re just, they’re just literally lying.”

ALEC spokesman Bill Meierling disagrees with Schmidt's assessment.

"We are not climate-change deniers, we’re not anything of the sort,” Meierling said, according to the Washington Post. “We do have serious reservations about how implementation is being done by the government.”

Earlier on Wednesday, Yelp announced that it parted ways with ALEC several months ago after receiving backlash from the public. Luther Lowe, Yelp's director of public policy, also cited ALEC's lack of transparency.

"We suggested ALEC invite C-SPAN to fully cover their meetings," Lowe stated. "Such sunlight on the organization would exert important pressure on ALEC to steer clear of controversial issues it has taken up in the past, while revealing to the broader public that providing a forum for policy makers and industry leaders to collaborate can result in consumer benefit (as was our experience)."

To date, more than 90 companies have left ALEC over its positions and actions.

They didn't like ALEC position that taxpayers should not subsidize large corporations investment in renewable energy. Why don't you look up how much the taxpayers are giving Google and come back and comment.

A lot of big corporations are dropping connections with the republican party and aligning with the democratic party because Hillary is going to win in 2016.

Why support a losing party?

wrongg Wrote:
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> They didn't like ALEC position that taxpayers
> should not subsidize large corporations investment
> in renewable energy. Why don't you look up how
> much the taxpayers are giving Google and come back
> and comment.

What about Microsoft and Yahoo? It appears smart people are over the Republican farce.

It's just part of the coordinated pr campaign this week to make people think that something is happening wrt climate change.

If you hadn't noticed, there's a bunch of this kind of stuff that was all planned for this week. The march in NYC was the big kick-off event to draw attention to it.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo - some of the most highly valued companies in the world, that employ many of the smartest minds in the world - told the Republicans to go fuck themselves because whatever you just made up in your little mind.

If this is PR - it's really bad PR for the Republicans. Giant, powerful, multi-national corporations are telling you to eat shit and die because you are full of shit and your agenda is not good for their business.

Republicans are going to have to start adopting libs policies and agends. I the RNC doesn't change their going to continue losing elections.

Oh I See Wrote:
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> Thanks for clearing that up.
>
> Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo - some of the most
> highly valued companies in the world, that employ
> many of the smartest minds in the world - told the
> Republicans to go fuck themselves because whatever
> you just made up in your little mind.
>
> If this is PR - it's really bad PR for the
> Republicans. Giant, powerful, multi-national
> corporations are telling you to eat shit and die
> because you are full of shit and your agenda is
> not good for their business.


Not really because the only people who give a shit anymore about Global Warming/climate change/climate justice/whatever else the fuck you're calling it this week, are a relatively small minority of mostly left-tard dimwits like you and they're already on that side anyway so... The GW-tards over-played their hand with all of the sensationalist bs earlier, none of which has happened, and fewer and fewer people now place any priority on it.

And, no, I didn't just make it up. There's a big organized push this week by the climate change groups. If you'd been paying attention then you'd know that the march was in fact billed as the kick-off to tie in with the Climate Change Summit activities at the UN this week and a related media campaign.

Google and the rest have been an on-going target of the Center for Media and Democracy coordinating with Forecast the Facts, Sierra Club, and some others.

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/12/06/google-targeted-for-support-of-alec-an-anti-clean-energy-group/The

http://forecastthefacts.org/

They timed the releases to coincide with all of the rest.

Just like they've cued up events and articles with friendly media:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/homeland-security-climate-change_n_5885074.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/25/climate-change-offers-opportunity-epa-chief-says/16209921/

Endless other examples.

If you don't think that all of this type of stuff is very well coordinated, then you're just naive.

Nice shot.

So - Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are part of a well coordinated effort by huge multi-national corporations to shit all over the Republican's bullshit agenda?

Thank you for pointing that out!

From here on out, everyone can accept it as an undeniable fact that the Republican Agenda is so stupid and bad for business that large multi-national corporations are coordinating their efforts to put the Republicans out of business.

Well done Sir. Well done indeed!

Explain This Wrote:
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> wrongg Wrote:
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> > They didn't like ALEC position that taxpayers
> > should not subsidize large corporations
> investment
> > in renewable energy. Why don't you look up how
> > much the taxpayers are giving Google and come
> back
> > and comment.
>
> What about Microsoft and Yahoo? It appears smart
> people are over the Republican farce.


So you clearly did not bother to look for yourself. You would have found the same situation. Libiots really do not like to cut from the herd and think for themselves.

Oh I See Wrote:
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> Thanks for clearing that up.
>
> Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo - some of the most
> highly valued companies in the world, that employ
> many of the smartest minds in the world - told the
> Republicans to go fuck themselves because whatever
> you just made up in your little mind.
>
> If this is PR - it's really bad PR for the
> Republicans. Giant, powerful, multi-national
> corporations are telling you to eat shit and die
> because you are full of shit and your agenda is
> not good for their business.


Yes those well known backers of the republican party. Google Microsoft and Yahoo.

You libs are so pathetic. As babies You must have been dropped on your heads by your moms in an attempt at late term abortion.

Another Cold War could stop Global Warming.