{"id":101710,"date":"2021-01-26T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=101710"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:25:12","slug":"microsoft-will-suspend-donations-to-any-gop-lawmakers-who-challenged-2020-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-will-suspend-donations-to-any-gop-lawmakers-who-challenged-2020-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Will Suspend Donations to Any GOP Lawmakers Who Challenged 2020 Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmicrosoft-will-suspend-donations-to-any-gop-lawmakers-who-challenged-2020-election-results%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=101710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_573617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 690px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-573617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gop-challenge-election.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-573617\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-573617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Microsoft announced this past weekend the company will suspend donations to any GOP lawmakers who challenged fraud in the 2020 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Microsoft said in a statement, \u201cThe company believes that opposition to the Electoral College undermined American democracy and should have consequences.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the company had nothing to say about opposing the Electoral College when President Trump was elected president and Democrats contested the results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is just the latest move by Big Tech to stifle freedom of speech in America \u2014 but only conservative speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/welovetrump.com\/2021\/01\/25\/microsoft-wants-to-punish-representatives-who-questioned-the-2020-election-results\/\">WeLoveTrump<\/a> added this on donations from Big Tech to Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2020 Big Tech influence as evidenced by political donations to Biden\/Dem PACs<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet 21M<br \/>\nMicrosoft 17M<br \/>\nAmazon 8.9M<br \/>\nFB 6M<br \/>\nApple 5.7M<br \/>\nNetflix 5.42M<br \/>\nTwitter .689M<\/p>\n<p>Biden gets 64.709M<br \/>\nTrump gets ZERO<\/p>\n<p>Impact of SM blocking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaptopFromHell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LaptopFromHell<\/a> story,priceless<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K4RC7JwrB5\">https:\/\/t.co\/K4RC7JwrB5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fweedom Loving ESC (@scampycaaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scampycaaz\/status\/1353464268356653059\">January 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/535649-microsoft-confirms-suspension-of-donations-amid-review-of-lawmakers-who\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft is halting political donations while reviewing whether to further suspend donations to lawmakers who voted against the certification of the election results, the company has publicly confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2021\/01\/22\/transcript-brad-smiths-remarks-at-an-employee-meeting-thursday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunday announcement<\/a>\u00a0that it will announce its final decision about a suspension of donations by Feb. 15, after completing discussions with employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Microsoft executives have said internally to employees, this is not a normal year. The company believes that opposition to the Electoral College undermined American democracy and should have consequences,\u201d the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft President Brad Smith internally announced the decision to employees on Jan. 8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/01\/microsoft-will-suspend-donations-gop-lawmakers-challenged-2020-election-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Microsoft Will Suspend Donations to Any GOP Lawmakers Who Challenged 2020 Election Results<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced this past weekend the company will suspend donations to any GOP lawmakers who challenged fraud in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gop-challenge-election.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Microsoft Will Suspend Donations to Any GOP Lawmakers Who Challenged 2020 Election Results","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gop-challenge-election.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Microsoft Will Suspend Donations to Any GOP Lawmakers Who Challenged 2020 Election Results","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}