Re: REVEALED: Twitter, Facebook and Netflix moguls have donated $7.5M to 'Marxist' BLM co-founder who is pushing their 'net neutrality' policy as their tech firms block users sharing critical stories about her

On 25 Apr 2021, Ed Stasiak <[email protected]> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9508427/Big-Tech-moguls-donate
> d-millions-groups-tied-BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors.html 24 April 2021
> 
> REVEALED: Twitter, Facebook and Netflix moguls have donated $7.5M to
> 'Marxist' BLM co-founder who is pushing their 'net neutrality' policy
> as their tech firms block users sharing critical stories about her 
> 
> Report reveals $7.5 million in donations from moguls to groups tied to
> Cullors Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder, and wife of
> Netflix CEO gave Cullors in turn spoke out out in favor of content
> giants' pet policy goals Facebook and Twitter are also quick to censor
> perceived criticism of Cullors 
> 
> Tech moguls who made their fortunes from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix
> have donated at least $7.5 million to groups tied to BLM co-founder
> Patrisse Cullors, who has in turn publicly backed their policy goals,
> according to a new report. 
> 
> Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and
> Patricia Ann Quillin, the wife of Netflix's billionaire CEO, all gave
> generously to Cullors' PAC and associated charities, according to the
> New York Post. 
> 
> Cullors for her part has strongly advocated for 'net neutrality', a
> policy that financially benefits online content providers such as
> Netflix and social media sites. 
> 
> And the cozy relationship has even seen Facebook and Twitter censor
> perceived criticism of Cullors, with Facebook going so far as to block
> users from sharing a DailyMail.com article detailing a controversy
> over her expensive real estate holdings 
> 
> Of the donors named by the Post, Moskovitz his wife Cari Tuna have
> given the most generously, donating more than $5.5 million from 2017
> to 2020, according to public records cited by the Post. 
> 
> Moskovitz, 36, was one of the co-founders of Facebook. He left the
> company in 2008, but retained a 2 percent stake that puts his net
> worth at nearly $20 billion. 
> 
> His donations went to Dignity and Power Now, a non-profit started by
> Cullors, and Reform LA Jails, a California PAC she co-founded to lobby
> for civilian oversight of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. 
> 
> Dorsey, who has an estimated net worth of $14 billion, chipped in $1.5
> million last year through his #startsmall philanthropy initiative. 
> 
> That money went to Black Lives Matter and The Movement for Black
> Lives, a coalition of activist groups founded by Cullors. 
> 
> Quillin, the wife of Netflix billionaire Reed Hastings, donated
> $250,000 to Reform LA Jails in 2020. 
> 
> Cullors' own finances are entwined to a degree with Reform LA Jails,
> which in 2019 paid $110,000 in consulting fees to a company controlled
> by her and her wife, Janaya Khan, according to the Post. 
> 
> There are no rules prohibiting officers of a California PAC from
> paying themselves or family members for consulting services. 
> 
> Cullors in 2015 described herself as a 'trained Marxist', and last
> December elaborated on her views, saying 'I do believe in Marxism.' 
> 
> 'I'm working on making sure that people don't suffer, I'm working to
> make sure people don't go hungry,' she explained in a YouTube video. 
> 
> Over the years, Cullors has been vocal in her support of net
> neutrality, a policy that is strongly favored by content giants and
> decried by internet service providers. 
> 
> Net neutrality prohibits service providers from charging companies
> such as Netflix for the vast amounts of data they send through the
> networks. 
> 
> The policy does not put 'neutrality' requirements on content providers
> such as Twitter and Facebook, who are given broad immunity in deciding
> what posts are allowed on their platforms. 
> 
> In 2014, Cullors penned an op-ed for The Hill, writing that 'Black
> online voices are threatened' by proposals to repeal net neutrality. 
> 
> 'It is because of net neutrality rules that the Internet is the only
> communication channel left where Black voices can speak and be heard,
> produce and consume, on our own terms,' she wrote. 
> 
> Cullors' finances have come under scrutiny in recent weeks, after
> fellow activists questioned her purchases of homes worth a total of $3
> million, including a $1.4 million mansion in LA's exclusive Topanga
> Canyon. 
> 
> Facebook respond to the controversy by blocking articles about
> Cullors' real estate holdings from DailyMail.com and the New York
> Post. 
> 
> A Facebook spokesperson told DailyMail.com at the time: 'This content
> was removed for violating our privacy and personal information
> policy.' 
> 
> However, articles covering the controversy from other outlets, such as
> Black Enterprise, a media company that covers black-owned businesses,
> were still allowed to be shared by Facebook users. 
> 
> Twitter also got in on the act, suspending Jason Whitlock, an
> outspoken conservative sports commentator, after he criticized
> Cullors. 
> 
> Whitlock, who is black, was barred from the platform after tweeting:
> 'Black Lives Matter founder buys $1.4 million home in Topanga, which
> has a black population of 1.4%. She's with her people!' 

Twitter needs to feel some pain.

> 'BLM is one of Big Tech's sacred cows,' Whitlock told DailyMail.com at
> the time. 'I’ve been harping on the fraudulence and the financial
> grift of BLM for years.' 
> 
> Last month AP reported that Black Live Matter Global Network brought
> in $90 million in donations last year, but the group says that it had
> paid Cullors only $120,000 since the organization’s inception in
> 2013, and that she did not receive any compensation after 2019. 
> 
> Cullors, who married Janaya Khan, a gender non-conforming leader of

"gender non-conforming..." "Khan identifies as black, queer,..."

> BLM in Toronto, in 2016, has been in high demand since her 2018 memoir
> became a best-seller. In October she published her follow-up,
> Abolition. 
> 
> She also works as a professor of Social and Environmental Arts at
> Arizona's Prescott College, and in October 2020 signed a sweeping deal
> with Warner Bros. 

Arizona let something like this into the state?

> The arrangement is described as a multi-year and wide-ranging
> agreement to develop and produce original programming across all
> platforms, including broadcast, cable and streaming.