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Re:Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars by danans on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:41AM (#22465982)
Kind of a misleading headline. Those candidates are raising the most from tech industry workers (both blue and white collar), not the companies themselves.
Re:Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars by Monroe13 on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:13PM (#22466351)
Companies cannot donate directly to political campaigns.
Re:Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars by Cenk on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:44PM (#22467382)
While technically true saying that is misleading, since companies can and do make political donations through PACs.

For example on November 12, “Google LLC NetPAC” donated $5000 to Devin Nunes’ campaign: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1208199872668528641

Re:Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars by Monroe13 on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:56PM (#22467523)
But the money in Netflix PAC comes from employees of Netflix, not from the company.

Companies can make independent expenditures through a Super PAC, but companies cannot contribute directly to a campaign.

Re:Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars by danans on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#22469574)
Decisions about how to spend the monies contributed by those employees are made by the company, though.
Re:Sanders and Warren raking in the most tech industry dollars by danans on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:51PM (#22466803)
True, but the article's headline implies that they are.