Yahoo Joins in Exodus, Ends ALEC Membership and Cuts Ties to ALEC

http://www.commoncause.org/democracy-wire/yahoo-cuts-ties.html

Posted by Jay Riestenberg on September 24, 2014

Yahoo issued the following statement to Common Cause Wednesday night:

"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."

Google announced that it had left ALEC on Monday, after Chairman Eric Schmidt said the organization is lying about climate change and funding them was a mistake. Facebook soon announced that is was unlikely that it would renew its ALEC membership, and Yelp confirmed to Common Cause on Wednesday that it had left the organization months ago. Microsoft also left ALEC last month.

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