{"id":132548,"date":"2024-07-23T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/explainer-what-are-harris-business-views-friendly-to-big-tech-aggressive-in-climate-fight\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:40:07","slug":"explainer-what-are-harris-business-views-friendly-to-big-tech-aggressive-in-climate-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/explainer-what-are-harris-business-views-friendly-to-big-tech-aggressive-in-climate-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What are Harris\u2019 business views? Friendly to Big Tech, aggressive in climate fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132548\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is potentially poised to become the Democratic presidential nominee in the November election. Here are her views and actions related to some key business topics.<\/p>\n<p>As a candidate for California attorney general, Harris reportedly assured potential donors that she was \u201ca capitalist.\u201d She has generally been seen as cozy with prominent tech executives and investors, the local industry in her home Bay Area. She attended the wedding of Sean Parker, an early Facebook executive. Her brother-in-law, Tony West, is the chief legal officer for Uber (UBER.N), opens new tab.<\/p>\n<p>She also accepted donations from Reid Hoffman, a prominent venture capitalist and co-founder of Linkedin, as well as billionaire John Doerr and venture capitalist Ron Conway. Big tech executives also supported her, including Sheryl Sandberg, then chief operating officer of Facebook, and Marc Benioff, the billionaire CEO of Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab.<\/p>\n<p>As California attorney general, Harris sued eBay (EBAY.O), opens new tab in 2012, alleging anticompetitive hiring practices surrounding a no-poaching agreement with Intuit (INTU.O), opens new tab that led to a nearly $4 million settlement in 2014.One of her signature issues was curtailing the distribution of pornography on social media, particularly \u201crevenge porn,\u201d a practice involving the posting of explicit photos without the subject\u2019s consent. She took credit for a pressure campaign that led to Facebook (META.O), opens new tab, Alphabet&#8217;s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google,<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab and others taking measures to remove certain explicit images. \u201cI cannot emphasize enough how leaders in technology have stepped up,\u201d said Harris at a news conference then. \u201cI\u2019m not suggesting any of them were happy to get a call from the AG saying, \u2018Come in, we want to talk with you.\u2018 But they all did. They did.\u201d\u00a0 Nuclear power provides a lot of power from a relatively small footprint for a very long time without any carbon emissions at all.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 climate and energy positions are similar to President Joe Biden\u2019s. But throughout her career she has made clear that clean energy and environmental justice are priorities.When Biden announced Harris as his running mate in the 2020 race, he emphasized her tough stance against big oil when she served in key roles in California, noting lawsuits she had launched both as San Francisco\u2019s district attorney from 2004 to 2011 and then as the state&#8217;s attorney general until January 2017, when she became a U.S. senator. As California Attorney General, Harris won multimillion-dollar settlements with oil majors Chevron and BP over alleged pollution violations from underground fuel storage tanks.<\/p>\n<p>She is a proponent of the Biden administration&#8217;s strategy to expand offshore wind energy and other renewables with lease auctions and subsidies, striking a contrast with Trump, a fossil fuel booster who has criticized offshore wind and other clean energy technologies.Last year, Harris made her debut at international climate negotiations, announcing a $3 billion commitment to the Green Climate Fund and making her first major international speech focused on climate. As vice president, Harris has also been involved in Environmental Protection Agency policy rollouts that tackled long-standing environmental justice issues, such as a multibillion-dollar program to replace lead pipes and lead paint around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was known to be tough on big banks as California Attorney General. She walked away from talks in 2011 between large banks and state attorneys general over a settlement that would require lenders to help consumers hurt by home foreclosures and predatory lending practices. Banks later more than quadrupled the money promised to help Californians reduce the amount they owed on their mortgages. Under Harris, California launched a criminal investigation into Wells Fargo in 2016 in connection with allegations the bank opened millions of unauthorized customer accounts and credit cards. Several major Wall Street names are reported to be supportive of Harris.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-vice-president-harris-views-business-issues-2024-07-21\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-vice-president-harris-views-business-issues-2024-07-21\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/explainer-what-are-harris-business-views-friendly-to-big-tech-aggressive-in-climate-fight\/\">Explainer: What are Harris\u2019 business views? 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