This is a positive development. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a terrible organization with way too much power.
The Daily Signal reports:
Is the SPLC’s Influence Over Big Tech Finally Crumbling?Major tech companies are distancing themselves from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist group that demonizes conservatives and Christians, after facing pressure over previous relationships with the SPLC in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.Kirk’s alleged murderer said he killed the Turning Point USA founder because he “spreads too much hate.” The assassination took place two months after the SPLC put Turning Point USA on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—a “hate map” that had inspired a terrorist attack in 2012. The SPLC condemned the assassination, but kept Turning Point on the map.Earlier this month, shareholders filed proposals at major companies, urging them to investigate whether the companies have used politicized tools like the SPLC’s “hate map.” Conservative groups also sent a letter to Benevity, which connects nonprofits to major corporations, urging it to stop using the SPLC “hate map.”Many of the companies told The Daily Signal that they do not have relationships with the SPLC any longer and do not use the “hate map.”The Heritage Foundation filed seven shareholder proposals with companies including Alphabet, Mastercard, Meta, PayPal, and Salesforce.“The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated October as Hate Crimes Awareness Month—but few organizations have sown more hatred against fellow Americans than the SPLC itself,” Heritage Chief Advancement Officer Andrew Olivastro previously told The Daily Signal. “It doesn’t fight hate—it manufactures it, embedding division into every press release they issue and every word they post; their business model is defamation, and America is finally waking up.”Eleven conservative groups on the “hate map” sent the letter to Benevity.
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