[irateswami]

I strongly disagree with this statement. A corporation (despite our current legal definition in the US) is not a person, and therefore shouldn't take sides in political matters, nor should it's representatives make overt political statements as though the company is a monolith. Companies are made up of people, and as individuals on their personal time and without conveying themselves as representatives of the company, should be able to to engage in politics.

If Silicon Valley executives are now going to be the arbiters of all that is good, we are in for a load of trouble. At best it's cringeworthy, at worst it's a load of limousine liberals wagging their fingers at the rest of us from their ivory towers.

[d4rti]

At least in the US, the current case law is against your conclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Corpora...

[judge2020]

"not participating in politics" is impossible, like another person in the thread stated[0], so simply not taking a side is taking a side, such as when deciding if your employees must wear a mask during work or if they can choose not to.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25178761