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I thought senator Harris was the new voice of the people..?
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/11/17219930/facebook-campaign-contributions-mark-zuckerberg-congress-donations
Edit: Here's the top from the list
TOTAL SINCE 2014 (Over $10,000)
Cory Booker (D-NJ) - 44,025
Kamala Harris (D-CA) - 39,990
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) - 16,400
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) - 15,900
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) - 15,200
Dean Heller (R-NV) - 14,400
Roy Blunt (R-MO) - 14,100
Mike Lee (R-UT) 13,500
Rich Blumenthal (D-CT) - 13,200
Brian Schatz (D-HI) - 12,500
Cory Gardner (R-CO) - 11,900
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) - 11,435
Tom Udall (D-NM) - 11,000
John Thume (R-SD) - 10,500
TheGuru32
It’s John Thune
TilSovngarde
Maybe Zuck can donate you a phone charger.
sjbrooksy7447
We need campaign finance reform. Wolfpac
Paperclipfarm
finally a facebook post that's not seen on here 15 thousand times.
mikeatc
Wait till tomorrow LOL but good point thanks for making it
thejunhorde
To be fair, Ted Cruz IS holding up his Starbucks.
mumumumumysharona
WarthogFrank
I never knew how much I needed this gif. I thank you.
PaleChixAreMyFetish
How do people watch this complete fucking idiot and take him seriously? It's unfuckingbelievable that he had a substantial following.
Tunisia
This just in: large California business donates to California representative.
mickison
Will we ever have campaign finance reform?
EF5Cyniclone
Well considering the people who would have to institute the reforms are the ones benefiting from it...
Misfire5150
No
rando84
McConnell blocking Merrick Garland means Citizens United won't be overturned anytime soon.
ChrisLucas1
Merrick Garland was pretty middle row, so doubt he would have helped repeal it, anyway.
xrufus7x
Ever, maybe. Anytime soon' probably not unless the supreme court steps in which they don't seem very interested in doing.
Cheomesh
No.
justaturd
Those donations were over the course of a 4-year period. To most politicians, it would be chump change.
posiespugs
I may be the odd one out here but 10-15k ain’t shit ♀️ that’s not a ton of money in the grand scheme of things for a lot of people.
Munchman347
I know people who would gouge your eyes out with a spoon for that kind of cash, and some aren't even politicians...
posiespugs
Im laughing
jumbosmooth
Eh, that's chump change for those kinds of politicians.
TheHolyFatman
Correct. This is nothing compared to what they get from private foundations.
WontonWrapper
It may not be significant to them, but it still matters
jumbosmooth
I agree.
THEDEATHOFRATS
if it's not significant to them, then it's not likely to change how they act, because all the power of money lies in the threat of removal
zackofspades
This is actually a really small amount over 4 years but...yeah whatever.
theromen111
Charge your phone
woollyllama
Clickbaitbait
MartinVanDijkNls
You need a system to get rich https://www.trker.com/go/108243
bagosocks
Wooo Citizens United! Corporations are people too!
Bluezebra2
Oligarchy
DamagedDingo
Damn. I plugged my phone in because I thought the battery was almost dead.. but then I realised that it’s in the image..
InsolventTacos
This post gave me battery anxiety.
SpisebORD
Just a Question, isn't this corruption? Or am i misunderstanding The term?
TheHolyFatman
I used to work in DC for lobbyists. These amounts are nothing. Like, not even close to some donations. Oil and big pharma, OTOH...
CaptBuckMinster
These donations are made by individual employees of Facebook; campaign contributions lists persons and employer. It's easy to assume 1/2
CaptBuckMinster
It's Facebook as a company doing the donations, but it is in fact individual contributions by people affiliated with Facebook.
hypocritical01
And to be honest these are way less than what has been purported. The concept “Facebook” and Zuckerberg have paid millions to all of them.
hypocritical01
Kind of crazy where people are like they have huge financial loss or gain from lines of questioning.
spoon13132000
Ok so from the UK here so please tell me if I'm wrong but aren't those numbers really small fry? Like 10k? The NRA spent literally millions.
Bloodandpheromones
Really small. Plus, there are so many individual employees of Facebook this is a small fraction of the potential legal donations
321Cheers
He wasn't under oath so who gives a feck?
Ihatepickingusernamesgb7488
So what was the point of the questioning ??
WafflesOfMassDeliciousness
Sound bites for campaigns this fall.
Ihatepickingusernamesgb7488
Wow I’m so gullible this literally never occurred to me. I’m in Ireland so we dont have these types of questioning audiences.
only90skidswillgetthis
To get us to ask for the government to regulate the Internet.
RaceMeIRL
There's plenty of reasons to hate the guy. But that's a pretty insignificant amount of money over 4 years. Especially with their salaries.
iamthisguy247
At least they pay both sides, I guess.
WontonWrapper
Why tho? It’s like they anticipated something like this
iamthisguy247
It's like he's building some kind of network.
WontonWrapper
ErictheGreatest
It’s easy to bash Facebook payments to lawyers. Facebook has also donated billions to charities! Sad how no one talks of the good.
Munchman347
The money to pols wasn't tax deductible...
only90skidswillgetthis
Facebook? Donated billions to charities? Do you have any source for this claim?
ErictheGreatest
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2015/12/1/9831554/mark-zuckerberg-charity-45-billion plus many other donations
Wybo
It would have killed you to put a screen shot of the amounts in your post?
WontonWrapper
Maybe. I wouldn’t kno
cousteau
Now we may never know!
MrJaunty
1/2 Facebook /employees./ The company itself did not donate this, employees of the company did, on their own.
MrJaunty
2/2 But since you have to put your employers on all political donations, all anyone sees is "Facebook donated."
TheManyMadMasks
I was not aware of that. Donated a few times to candidates, but don't recall listing anything about my employme- *FBI crash through window*
kakize
American oligarchy.
zanzeh
Have u read Jeffrey Winter's book Oligarchy?
SebastianSavage
Dot
Boredtodeath
No, but it is now on my reading list. That will probably never be finished.
zanzeh
Technically all u need to read is 1st and 4th chapters tho I recommend the whole book...
55Kevy
so the dems got twice as much as the reps... No, FB isn't biased
leroy666
Aw, c'mon. You already knew that. Almost everyone in Tech favours dems. Just like rednecks and illiterates favour GOP.
only90skidswillgetthis
If you are going to do business in California and contribute to the congressmen, they'll be Democrat.
FreyaNicci
Exactly. Why the illiterate hordes find this offensive is hilarious.
Ilikestyx
Though I've got to admit, some of the questioning was pretty good and some came down on FB kind of hard for their continual repeated issues.
theTrafficConeDisturbance
Honestly I really hope congress’ since of Justice is worth less than 40,000
Zaayl
Id be disappointed if they could buy a senator for 10k, I know youtubers who wont shill a product for 10k.
cangarejos
How come no one asked about Guam tipping over???
Mentok
Tough questioning looks good and makes for nice articles, but doesn't change anything in anyway.
DavidAndrews
Yup, tough questioning doesn't do much when followed by nothing.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Many of the questions came from old guys that knew nothing about the subject
imgjim
I agree. And the answers came from someone pretending not to know.
mikaandmilodogs
Can you give an example?
Vivek13
"How do you make money if Facebook is a free service?"
diphenhydraminehcl50mg
You might try watching the testimony in its entirety for an example. Jk I dunno.
xTracerBulletx
Tried comparing Facebook to owning a Ford on monopoly issue.
kookyabird
Facebook has an effective monopoly due to the isolated nature of the platform and the fact that no one competitor does everything they do.
Majoolwip
One of the senators asked if they could have the right to take their data to another social media platform.
gravyandfries
Well we do have the right to take our info else where. We just don’t get to remove what’s there already
aerodynamit3
Ted Cruz did a good job surprisingly.
FreyaNicci
He didn't. He was grandstanding for the idiot hordes that think a private company shouldn't discriminate against nazis.
OverlordEd
Ted Cruz often does a lot of good things. He is one of the Republicans I like
Donnydangaaazone
...except the murders
OverlordEd
Yes and the murders of course. Best serial killer out there.
KABARU
Especially the murders.
Ilikestyx
He was trying to make FB and Zuckerberg look like biased Liberals who actively seek out Conservative content to remove and block.
burpwind
They've got to appear to be legit to their constituents. The questions are all pre-approved so they get still get funding. Old trick
davidrzr
Ten hours of pre approved questions?
burpwind
Do you expect them to just have a few then give up?
davidrzr
Why not if it is a sham? Also, why give zuckerberg questions he couldn't answer then?
burpwind
It doesn't matter how he answers. They'll go lightly on him anyway. They just want to make it look like they're doing something.
mitchel4658
This post is a pile of shit! Donations over the last 4 years has no precedence over this hearing....fucken garbage.
helluvasparkplug
Tell us how you really feel
randomusergnome
Mark?
Clockworkdancerobot
A few were pretty softball questions, partly just there to further a senator's agenda or "The USA is great!!"
Callthebrutesquad
Plus he wasn't even under oath. This was just meaningless political theater.
namiasdf
Nah, it was mostly a "don't fucking get caught or we gotta do this bullshit" sorta ordeal.
CHarbringer
And that...is why this country is fucked.
teakasaurus
So....political theatre.
TeddyBearLord
It sounded more interesting before, but I think so.