Justine Tunney
Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney (born 1984) is became software developer at Google and is noted for her programming acumen. She was a former Occupy movement activist and a blogger. In 2014 Tunney raised a petition to appoint the executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, as CEO of America.
Quotes
[edit]- It never ceases to amaze me how far people have to stretch in order to denounce the one corporation that gives away everything for free
- Hern of The Guardian reporting on Tunney's support for Google after becoming employed by that corporation.[1]
- Tech companies expropriate ad money from capitalists to build a superintelligence & don’t pay dividends! ... Silicon Valley is firmly post-capitalist. There just isn’t a name for it yet, nor an intellectual (assessment)
- Whilst "Explaining on Twitter why she thinks anti-capitalism is compatible with promotion of her employers" according to Hern of the The Guardian Newspaper.[1]
Quotes about Tunney
[edit]- she has become an astroturfer par excellence for the company, including showing up in a comment section to bash my reporting on Google’s vast for-profit surveillance operation
- Reporter Yasha Levine from the Pando Daily observing a "seeming discrepancy between Tunney’s former anarchist beliefs and her current role at Google", as reported by Hern in The Guardian.[1]
External links
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- ↑ a b c Hern, Alex (2014-03-20). Occupy founder calls on Obama to appoint Eric Schmidt 'CEO of America'. The Guardian.
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