The Independent UK-Occupy Wall St leader calls for Google's Eric Schmidt to be made "CEO of America"

[proverbialwisdom]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/occupy-wall-street-leader-calls-for-googles-eric-schmidt-to-be-made-ceo-of-america-9207226.html

Occupy Wall Street leader calls for Google's Eric Schmidt to be made "CEO of America"

JAMES VINCENT
Friday 21 March 2014

One of the co-founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement has called for Barack Obama to resign as president and for Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt to be appointed as “CEO of America”.

Justine Tunney, a 29-year-old software engineer and self-declared “Champagne Tranarchist”, claims to be one of the founding members of the anti-capitalist movement, and recently took control of the official @OccupyWallSt twitter account with its nearly 200,000 followers.

Tunney, who works for Google, posted a petition on 19 March calling for the US government to “transfer all federal administrative authority to the tech industry,” with three additional demands:

1. Retire all government employees with full pensions.
2. Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry.
3. Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.

Speaking to the Telegraph, Tunney said she’d been inspired to make the petition because she worked for Google and was familiar with Schmidt’s ability to run “a successful organisation”.

“He was responsible for building Google, which is a benevolent corporation that's making the world a better place," she told the paper. “If he can do it for Google, maybe he can do it for government. What we need to see is a regime change.

“I’m fully cognizant of the fact that politicians don't care what we think, but I think we can raise awareness of radical solutions, the possibility of a regime change and peaceful transfer of power to good corporations that can bring us in to the future."

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Is this an early April Fool's Day joke?

[jsr]

1. Nonsense. It's Eric Schmidt & Mark Zuckerberg for 2016.

[CJCRANE]

2. I've never heard of her.

Also, I thought the Occupy Movement was anti-corporatist.

It all seems a little bizarre.

[jsr]

5. She's smarter than Snooki

[randome]

3. Wait just a goddamned minute.

Occupy has a 'leader'?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[CJCRANE]

4. I can shenanigans! There's something not right about this story/setup. nt

[proverbialwisdom]

6. Another article at The Guardian website with 158 comments.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/20/occupy-founder-obama-eric-schmidt-ceo-america

Occupy founder calls on Obama to appoint Eric Schmidt 'CEO of America'
Justine Tunney, a Google software engineer, is demanding that the tech industry take over the US government

by Alex Hern
theguardian.com, Thursday 20 March 2014 09.17 EDT

[CJCRANE]

9. Um..three virtually identical news stories, word for word. There's a PR firm behind this IMO. nt

[CJCRANE]

7. The original story is from the Telegraph. That explains it. RW BS.

Here's the important part: The petition - which had just 10 signatures on Thursday night

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10712822/Make-Googles-Eric-Schmidt-CEO-of-America.html

The co-founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement has called for the US government to be run by the country's technology industry.

Justine Tunney, now a software engineer at Google, has posted a petition on the official White House website proposing that Barack Obama resigns and appoints Eric Schmidt as the "CEO of America".

Mr Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, would lead a government "more prepared for change" staffed by the US technology industry, according to Ms Tunney.

"It's because I'm a Googler, I'm familiar with Eric Schmidt being very good at running a successful organisation. He was responsible for building Google, which is a benevolent corporation that's making the world a better place," she told the Telegraph.

[NuclearDem]

8. "Occupy Wall Street leader" is a completely nonsensical concept

for an organization with a horizontal power structure.

[CJCRANE]

10. It's a PR spiel IMO. Three newspapers with the exact same story. nt