On the heels of Microsoft, and then Google, leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Facebook spokesperson now says that they will leave the corporatist front group in 2015, as well:
Google’s departure, “really puts Facebook and Yahoo in an uncomfortable position,” said Jay Riestenberg, a research analyst with Common Cause who follows ALEC.Facebook may be next out the ALEC door, a company spokesperson told The Chronicle on Tuesday.
“We re-evaluate our memberships on an annual basis and are in that process now,” a company representative wrote in an e-mail to the newspaper. “While we have tried to work within ALEC to bring that organization closer to our view on some key issues, it seems unlikely that we will make sufficient progress so we are not likely to renew our membership in 2015.”
This is how you bleed corporatist groups dry. When their major corporate supporters leave them, they will eventually whither and die. The court of public opinion is weighing in against ALEC and they have been found guilty of corporate manipulation of our democracy, punishable by organizational death.
