Yahoo the latest tech firm to cut ties with conservative group ALEC
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
On Tuesday, a Yahoo spokesperson told The Chronicle that it was still a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, the controversial conservative policy organization — even after Google and Microsoft said they were leaving. A Yahoo spokesperson said Tuesday that "at this time, we are members of ALEC and limit our engagement to their Communications and Technology Task Force."
On Wednesday, Yahoo changed its mind. Following the lead of Google, Facebook and Yelp, this week, Yahoo is bolting ALEC.
"We've decided to discontinue our membership in ALEC. We periodically review our membership in organizations and, at this time, we will no longer participate in the ALEC Task Force on Communications and Technology," that same spokesperson said in an e-mail.
... ALEC officials told The Chronicle that they expect more tech firms to leave, soon, too.
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They helped to fund the creation of literally hundreds and hundreds of boilerplate pieces of draconian RW legislation that every GOP legislator has a copy of.... only needing to tweak it for their state, and submit for passage.
"Voter ID", "Right to Work", "Transvaginal Ultrasound", "Privatization of Government Services", etc.
Now that ALEC's work is done, they can "withdraw". 
