Google and Meta do not meet the requirements to partner with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, the organisation has said, after the two tech giants ended their official involvement and ditched diversity obligations in the US.

At the 47th annual Mardi Gras parade up Oxford Street next Saturday, a notable absence will be the two tech firms, previously event sponsors.

When Sydney hosted the biannual World Pride global event in 2023, Meta sent a float to the parade. It was a media partner for last year’s Mardi Gras; Google was a supporting partner.

The two companies have this year curtailed their spending on Mardi Gras, Guardian Australia has confirmed, and are not sponsoring the event in any capacity.

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    Good. Go fuck yourselves you pandering snippets of Satan’s foreskin. Let’s rock out with our - out in style.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Agreed, fickle corporations can fuck off. If your support depends on whether it’s profitable, it’s not real support. Support it because it’s the right thing to do.

      • lil0ps@lemmings.world
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        They are not fickle. Companies are not people with core morals. They are buildings that get remodeled. 100% always and only about reducing cost, increasing profit and maintaining favor with the customer.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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          It’s like people still just do not understand that a corporations purpose is to make money. They quite literally can not be trusted to do anything but choose what they believe to be most profitable.

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            The People understand. Your statement is akin to publishing the secret recipe of boiled water

            What you need to understand is that corrupt courts have given corporations people’s rights which is all kinds of wrong

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          Then stop the nonsense of giving them people’s rights and protections

          Everyone understands corporations have no morals, but corrupt Murican courts keep granting them people’s rights