Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Big Tech Companies Are Not ‘Civically Involved’ in San Francisco

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) criticized Big Tech companies for not being “very civically involved” in San Francisco this week.

“What I see as the downside, to be very candid, is I don’t see tech as very civically involved, and I think they have to be,” declared Feinstein in an interview with KQED. “Like when I was mayor [of San Francisco], the CEOs of the big banks — I could go in and ask them to help with any civic cause. Cross my heart. I never got a ‘no.’ Bank of America, Wells — all of them said ‘yes.'”

“I don’t understand it, to be honest with you… It’s a much more reserved world, sort of a world apart,” Feinstein continued. “I have had occasion to meet with some of the tech leaders, and I guess they’re like any other group of people. There are some that want to be helpful, and there are some that don’t.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently complained about a tax on the ballot to assist San Francisco’s crisis of homelessness. Dorsey took to his own platform to say, “I admit that while I come at this as a citizen first, there’s an unfairness I see in my role of CEO of Square (this does not apply to Twitter)”

During Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, Feinstein alluded that more people would die in school shootings should Kavanaugh be confirmed.