Salesforce won't travel to Indiana over religious freedom law [View all]

Source: Indianapolis Star

Soon after Gov. Mike Pence signed the religious freedom bill into law Thursday, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff announced on Twitter that he would no longer send employees or customers to Indiana.

"Today we are canceling all programs that require our customers/employees to travel to Indiana to face discrimination," he tweeted.

Salesforce, a cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, acquired Indianapolis-based marketing software company ExactTarget last year for $2.5 billion.

... In a tweet sent out to his 150,000 followers Wednesday night, Benioff said his cloud computing company would be "forced to dramatically reduce (its) investment in IN based on (its) employee's & customer's outrage over the Religious Freedom Bill."

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/03/25/business-leaders-address-letter-to-pence-urging-him-to-veto-religious-freedom-bill/70466808/

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Salesforce won't travel to Indiana over religious freedom law [View all]	Newsjock	Mar 2015	OP
The Boycott of Indiana begins.	Dont call me Shirley	Mar 2015	#1
other companies should do the same.	samsingh	Mar 2015	#2
Bravo......	Cryptoad	Mar 2015	#3
The Colts can move back to Baltimore!	KamaAina	Mar 2015	#4
Iowa will take 'em	47of74	Mar 2015	#34
I'm sorry......	DeSwiss	Mar 2015	#47
But those Cleveland Browns are now the Ravens.	KamaAina	Mar 2015	#55
Can we please stop messing with my Browns?	Enthusiast	Mar 2015	#68
Can we give Indiana the Raiders?	Brother Buzz	Mar 2015	#56
Well, it's not like they're an NFL team	KamaAina	Mar 2015	#57
Word!	Brother Buzz	Mar 2015	#58
Yeah, you better hide ...	brett_jv	Mar 2015	#64
But the Raiders front office has been bellyaching that they really, really need a good place to play	Brother Buzz	Mar 2015	#71
Pence does not believe boycotts will succeed.	old guy	Mar 2015	#5
Maybe the NFL should quit playing games in his state	rurallib	Mar 2015	#7
do you know if the NFL has spoken of this bill? just curious	riversedge	Mar 2015	#30
See #4 above	KamaAina	Mar 2015	#36
#1	riversedge	Mar 2015	#29
The boycotts hurt Colorado in the 90's	mountain grammy	Mar 2015	#37
Of course they have one!	MyOwnPeace	Mar 2015	#44
Dan Quayle wasn't the only Hoosier to come out of Indiana	LittleGirl	Mar 2015	#66
Haha. You reap what you sow. Funny, the karma here, when you abuse your neighbor, you get punished.	closeupready	Mar 2015	#6
I pulled one of our companies out of a state purely because of the RW politicians and	RKP5637	Mar 2015	#8
Good, RKP, thanks.. personally, I changed mechanics back in the early part of the century bc	Cha	Mar 2015	#50
Oh, boy. This is going to be interesting...on a personal level.	mnhtnbb	Mar 2015	#9
It will be so interesting.. we'll see what would have happened in Arizona had the Gov signed the	Cha	Mar 2015	#53
reap the whirlwind, mutherfukcers	frylock	Mar 2015	#10
Berlin 1933	olddots	Mar 2015	#11
then Nuremburg Laws of 1935 for German racial purity against Jews and others	appalachiablue	Mar 2015	#60
"Salesforce" sucks ass.	PassingFair	Mar 2015	#12
It seems to be more than a gesture	matt819	Mar 2015	#13
I think that they should be forced to post their bigotry on their doors.	PassingFair	Mar 2015	#14
Can't agree with you more.	matt819	Mar 2015	#15
How about a swastika tattoo on their foreheads?	Elmer S. E. Dump	Mar 2015	#17
But think about this as if it were McDonalds	erronis	Mar 2015	#18
That's why I said..."but this is a nice gesture!"	PassingFair	Mar 2015	#21
Maybe your integration isn't done correctly-	snooper2	Mar 2015	#22
A Democrat in the OK state legislature added an amendment	avebury	Mar 2015	#25
+1	appalachiablue	Mar 2015	#61
Indiana, Arizona, Alabama, MS, LA, TX, GA, SC	lark	Mar 2015	#16
It's like "don't buy books by crooks." That's what came out of the Watergate era.	calimary	Mar 2015	#19
Or quit flying since the TSA (and the airlines) make it such a horrible experience	erronis	Mar 2015	#20
Yeah, I don't love flying either.	lark	Mar 2015	#27
Don't forget Arkansas.	LiberalArkie	Mar 2015	#23
Arkansas was never a place I wanted to go.	lark	Mar 2015	#26
We have a lot of liberals here, just out moneyed. We even had a liberal Republican governor once.	LiberalArkie	Mar 2015	#33
We were only in Arkansas for two days -	raven mad	Mar 2015	#46
Yeah, good luck "courting business" with your discrimination laws, bigot. Thanks for the	Cha	Mar 2015	#54
At least last year our governor (coerced by businesses), vetoed similar legislation.	dbackjon	Mar 2015	#24
Which state are you from? Hard to trust a state where the 'uglicans have taken control	erronis	Mar 2015	#28
It is that redneck attitude, "I bet I can piss further than you", they have to go further than the	LiberalArkie	Mar 2015	#35
Arizona	dbackjon	Mar 2015	#38
No, genetics has nothing to do with it. White mainly southern people have the same genes	totodeinhere	Mar 2015	#40
Exactly.	DeSwiss	Mar 2015	#49
It's Called Flyover Country for a Reason	AndyTiedye	Mar 2015	#63
Mike Pence is a Dominionist.	Demit	Mar 2015	#31
All made-up garbage.	DeSwiss	Mar 2015	#52
Reminds me of Germany circa 1930's	lobodons	Mar 2015	#32
1935 Nuremburg Laws for Germanic racial purity against Jews and others	appalachiablue	Mar 2015	#62
I think there is a good chance that the courts will intervene	totodeinhere	Mar 2015	#39
Another job and investment killing bill passed by Republicans....	blackspade	Mar 2015	#41
Indiana, I can quit you. nt	TeamPooka	Mar 2015	#42
The GOP would LOVE for Indiana to be driven into bankruptcy. Look at all the State's treasures they	blkmusclmachine	Mar 2015	#43
I love a good boycott that starts with a huge bang like this!	raven mad	Mar 2015	#45
I was looking for news of this.. I was going to post it in GD.. but, this will do.. mahalo, Newsjock	Cha	Mar 2015	#48
Boycott all right wing sharia law states!	workinclasszero	Mar 2015	#51
Some large corporations with Indiana plants will be forced	Chipper Chat	Mar 2015	#59
I am so angry I am going to stop watching "The Middle" which is set in Indiana.	Hugin	Mar 2015	#65
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Mar 2015	#67
I would love to see a person open a business in Indiana and discriminate against Christians.	Vinca	Mar 2015	#69
Give it ten years	HoosierCowboy	Mar 2015	#70
Not to mention, Texas.	Rozlee	Mar 2015	#72
I just love Republican branding of laws	packman	Mar 2015	#73