PayPal promises to match donations to the Yes campaign
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Online payment company PayPal has pledged its support for marriage equality, promising to match donations made to the yes campaign.
The company hopes its support will help secure a win for the 鈥榶es鈥� vote, has reported.
PayPal鈥檚 Australian small and medium business director Brian McDonnell said supporting marriage equality was a 鈥渟ocial responsibility鈥� for businesses in Australia.
鈥淚f you look at tech companies like Microsoft and, locally, Atlassian, they are actively advocating in the same way as PayPal that the result of this survey should be a 鈥榶es鈥� and marriage equality should exist for Australians,鈥� McDonnell said.
鈥淓very person in Australia, and broadly around the world, has technology in their pocket every single day and that is a driving force in itself. That really creates a platform to get broad distribution about a critical issue.
鈥淭his is not about marriage. It鈥檚 actually about equality before the law.鈥�
The company is matching individual donations of up to $250, up to a total of $50,000.
Donations can be made .
Voting in the marriage equality postal survey is open until November 7, with results to be announced the following week.
Just want to mention that I work at Atlassian – I love that we鈥檙e loud about equality. You should see us internally, we printed tshirts for everyone too – and not just here, in the US too. When prop 8 was overturned (the equivalent of the shite we鈥檙e going through here) we planted rainbow Easter eggs in Bitbucket when code was checked in, and printed rainbow t鈥檚 for everyone. It鈥檚 not lipservice. If you have a diverse team you are a much much much better one as a result.
However, I just wanted to point out that it鈥檚 not just us and PayPal. Every company that puts up a yes sign is just as great, it doesn鈥檛 have to be rainbows on buildings. I鈥檇 love to see something about where others work, big and small, and the support they are giving. All of it counts. Help us show it.