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Koch Brothers Team Up With George Soros, Patreon and Airbnb to Fight Online Extremism
Observer ^ | 06/11/19 | Davis Richardson

Posted on 06/13/2019 12:52:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Koch Brothers are teaming up with tech companies, universities and other fellow billionaires to combat online extremism.

On July 17, the After Charlottesville Project will host its second summit in San Francisco, California. Founded in the aftermath of the deadly 2017 white supremacist attacks in Virginia, the conference brings together political and business leaders to discuss solutions for curbing political terrorism. While last year’s gathering in Missouri involved grassroots and city response initiatives, the focus of this year’s summit will involve the “private tech sector” and “best practices on the fight against hate and extremism online,” according to the event’s press release.

Representatives for the Charles Koch Institute and the Anti-Defamation League will join executives from tech companies which currently include Eventbrite, Mozilla, Pinterest, Patreon and Airbnb.

“Now more than ever is the time to create communities that value diversity, inclusivity and positive change,” Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia and the founder and chair of the Communities Overcoming Extremism Project, said in a statement. “We’re excited to assemble with these forward-thinking tech leaders to explore what positive outcomes we can gain from an event full of powerful conversations.”

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airbnb; charleskoch; davidkoch; frederickkoch; koch; kochbros; liberaltarians; libertarians; patreon; soros; williamkoch
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To: dfwgator

Supporting communists does not make them richer.


21 posted on 06/13/2019 1:13:06 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: yesthatjallen

They have a Metreon right there by the Moscone Center.


22 posted on 06/13/2019 1:13:06 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Innovative

The Rich love socialism, it keeps out the competition.


23 posted on 06/13/2019 1:13:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

There’s a lesser known Koch brother who held a fund raiser at his home in Martha’s Vineyard during the summer of 2016 for candidate Donald Trump.

I forget his first name, but he must be the black sheep of the Koch family, because he’s actually normal.

The better known Crotch brothers suck bear turds.


24 posted on 06/13/2019 1:27:58 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump IS The Resistance!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Charlottesville was a false flag.

The head of the so-called white nationalists, Jason Kessler, is a Hillary support and an Obama supporter before that. He wanted “gun control” after Sandy Hook. Some “right winger,” huh?

Also, Congressman Louie Gohmert said he saw video footage of Antifa types and the so-called “white nationalists” getting off the SAME bus.

Like I said, false flag.


25 posted on 06/13/2019 1:31:29 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump IS The Resistance!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Typical_Whitey

[1) Shut Up Whitey,
2) Sit Down Whitey,
3) Imprison Whitey and, finally,
4) Kill Whitey.]

Or, you could just have typed “DNC Platform”.


26 posted on 06/13/2019 1:32:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Conservative Gato

Let me try that again:: If we fail. They will take revenge on us and we will be looking at bars for our treasonous act of defying them.


28 posted on 06/13/2019 1:34:27 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: yesthatjallen

Bernie did have it right that there are corporate Socialists.


29 posted on 06/13/2019 1:34:52 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait.)
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To: Skywise

It was one death in Charlottesville and Professor Dixon has still been bragging this year about how he chased Fields into the crowd which resulted in the one death.

They should give Fields a new trial because if anything he should have been charged with manslaughter not first degree murder.

Likely the verdict would have gone differently if Fields had been black being chased by an insane Antifa white professor with a rifle.


30 posted on 06/13/2019 1:36:24 PM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: yesthatjallen

So more idiots on the right think that cozying up to the left is going to spare them? Did the Koch brothers forget that to the left, THEY are considered “neo-nazis” and “extremists” too?

Well, Romney seems to forget that when he was running for President, the same lefties who he is kissing up to now were saying he was a dog abusing, fag bashing theocrat.


31 posted on 06/13/2019 1:41:16 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Steve Van Doorn
Let me try that again:: If we fail. They will take revenge on us and we will be looking at bars for our treasonous act of defying them.

Agreed, the meaning of treason will be turned upsidedown to mean defying them instead of the real treason against our Constitutional Republic (which they are guilty of).

I'm glad we are winning to the point it's exposing these things. It's a good sign of desperation on their part but we still have a ways to go. I do feel good about the progress being made.

CGato

32 posted on 06/13/2019 1:48:08 PM PDT by Conservative Gato (Now there are 4 kind of lies... Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and the Media)
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To: yesthatjallen

How long before everyone born in this country (USA) gets an implant programmed the way the “powers to be” want everyone to believe and behave? Everything sick and disgusting will be the prevailing theme.


33 posted on 06/13/2019 2:02:38 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: yesthatjallen

Will that “hate” include the likes of Auntie Fah, BLM, and the SPLC? Or will it be limited to imaginary “white supremacists” and anti-fag evangelicals?


34 posted on 06/13/2019 2:49:13 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Conservative Gato

of course it is a divide and conquer strategy... with only two parties ever allowed.

Ever notice how every election, the topics are all 50/50 ? and the one thing that is polling 80% always gets ignored?

Also, the parties are aligned along the ways that our brains work, with a party for emotional and a party for rational decision makers.

We are being manipulated...like a child that gets to decide between having peas or carrots.


35 posted on 06/13/2019 2:58:11 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just another way for these rats to get around campaign finance laws. If you can’t donate past the limit, you can always put money into destroying any ideas put forward by your opponents by labeling them “extremism”, the way Pinterest recently tagged pro-Life posts as “porn.” No lie too shameless.


36 posted on 06/13/2019 3:03:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: yesthatjallen

The article states “white supremacists attacks” plural attacks by white supremacists— who were a) not in the majority and b) did not attack anyone. The Antifa was there in force and did throw rocks, hit with batons, and sprayed bear spray at the protestors against the removal of monuments to Confederate leaders. Those are the facts, as is the false flag operation run by a former Occupy Wall Street liberal turned overnight white supremacist “leader”— and who has been “outed” as an outright fraud.

So, the people who came to protest were Heritage people— Sons of Confederate Veterans, members of families that go way back in VA history. And the result— “piss on them”. Another item thrown- open bottles of piss, and socks filled with excrement- human and otherwise.

The only “attack” per se was an oddball guy in a Dodge Charger from waaaaaaay up North somewhere— who went down a side alley/road and was acosted by a crowd who beat on his car with baseball bats. He accelerated to push aside or get the crowd to part and hit another car, near which was a female who reacted (she was not “hit” but rather the car she was near was rapidly thrown into her-— and she had a heart attack (coroners inquest) and died. A heart attack from the stress of the event— not an injury from the car. Nevertheless the individual was charged with vehicular murder/manslaughter and convicted I believe.

The mayor of C’Ville— former one... a jewish activist and his obama-ite council members created this events needless ramping up of emotion— they are the ones who want every bit of VA history— erased— especially white history.


37 posted on 06/13/2019 4:15:21 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Conservative Gato

Yep. The Kochs are what the Enemedia uses as a foil, a substitute for real conservatives, so that they can ignore out of existence any genuinely conservative stance on key issues. I never believed them to be conservative.


38 posted on 06/13/2019 4:51:38 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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