{"id":16239,"date":"2017-02-06T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16239"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:31:06","slug":"lobbying-legerdemain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/lobbying-legerdemain\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying Legerdemain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants have united to make noise about President Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/05\/technology\/trump-travel-ban-tech-companies-legal-brief\/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom\" target=\"_new\">travel moratorium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A total of 97 companies &#8212; including Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Facebook (FB, Tech30), Google (GOOGL, Tech30), Intel (INTC, Tech30), Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30), Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) and Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) &#8212; filed a court motion Sunday night declaring that Trump&#8217;s executive order on immigration &#8220;violates the immigration laws and the Constitution.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only the cynical amongst us, which should include all of us by now, would suspect that the tech companies are making a lot of noise about this policy not because of a principled stand but because they want to disrupt Trump&#8217;s other plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/trump-h-1b_us_5890d86ce4b0522c7d3d84af?\" target=\"_new\">curtail H1-B Visa abuse by tech giants<\/a>.  You know, the ones who have so Bravely Opposed An Unjust Policy.<\/p>\n<p>The longer and louder we talk about the first, the less chance for the second, they hope.<\/p>\n<p>(Second link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/256544\/\" target=\"_new\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants have united to make noise about President Trump&#8217;s travel moratorium: A total of 97 companies &#8212; including Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Facebook (FB, Tech30), Google (GOOGL, Tech30), Intel (INTC, Tech30), Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30), Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) and Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) &#8212; filed a court motion Sunday night declaring that Trump&#8217;s executive order on immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16240,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions\/16240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}