[nostromo]

Google and Amazon both fucked up by weighing in on political campaigns.

And now they're shocked, shocked, that getting political with your monopolistic companies carries some political risk.

The solution is easy enough -- don't talk about politics at work -- and in particular not if you're the CEO.

[sixothree]

Is it too much to expect our government to not play political games?

[nostromo]

Is it too much to expect politicians to not play political games?

Sure, that'd be great, but it's never happened before and will likely not happen for the foreseeable future.

[sixothree]

I expect better.

[ratsmack]

This is the best point I've seen in this thread so far. Companies should just stick to their business interests and leave politics and social engineering to others.

[magduf]

Um, isn't this exactly what Microsoft did up until they got slapped with that antitrust trial in the late 90s? They found out the hard way that not playing the game can be very costly for the company.

It'd be nice if it wasn't like this, but it just isn't; this country is too corrupt for huge players to just ignore politics, when their competitors don't.

[paulgb]

> Google and Amazon both fucked up by weighing in on political campaigns.

What are you referring to here? The fact that executives had and expressed political opinions, or are you alleging that they put their fingers on the scales?