AOL is latest company to cut ties with ALEC
AOL has become the latest corporate giant to dump the Koch brothers by cutting ties with ALEC.
AOL becomes the latest in a series of major tech companies to cut ties with the secretive corporate lobbying group. Microsoft announced its departure in August. A month later, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt declared on a nationally-broadcast radio program that ALEC was “literally lying” about climate change and that Google’s funding for the organization was a “mistake.” Following Google’s lead, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, International Paper, Occidental Petroleum, News Corp, Overstock.com, and SAP have all confirmed that they have left or are planning to leave ALEC.
To learn more about how ALEC has has tried to take over state legislatures and enact laws supported by their big money backers over (one of their big goals is to privatize the job of law enforcement) watch this 2 minute video. Explains the whole deal.