Bay Area civil rights activists on Thursday delivered more than 500,000 petition signatures to Google headquarters in Mountain View calling on the company to pull its sponsorship of the Republican National Convention this summer if Donald Trump is the nominee.
Chanting "Google dump Trump," dozens of activists marched up to the Googleplex to hand over the petitions saying Google and other corporations should not provide a platform for what they call Trump’s hateful rhetoric.
"Companies, especially a company that claims to do no evil and that wants to be a positive force for change in the world needs to be on the right side of history," said Arisha Hatch, managing director at ColorOfChange.
Google Public Policy Executive Juniper Downs accepted the petitions for the company, but wouldn’t provide an immediate response.
Google is reviewing the matter, Downs said.