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Twitter drops far-left Southern Poverty Law Center as ‘safety partner
Life Site News ^ | April 16, 2019 | Calving Freiburger

Posted on 04/16/2019 8:24:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

April 16, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Social media giant Twitter has quietly severed ties with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) amid mounting reports of scandal within the organization and insider claims that SPLC’s “hate” monitoring is a money-making scam.

Twitter previously identified SPLC as a “safety partner” that helps weed out “hateful conduct and harassment” on the platform, but the Daily Caller reports that their partnership may no longer be the case. “The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council or a partner the company has worked with recently,” an anonymous source inside Twitter said. The SPLC no longer appears on the company’s Safety Partners list.

SPLC has long been controversial for its history of labeling mainstream Christian and/or conservative organizations – including Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, the Ruth Institute, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and Jihad Watch – “hate groups” to be blacklisted from various online platforms and services. The organization has managed to pressure companies like Mastercard and GoFundMe to (at least temporarily, in some cases) deny services to conservative figures and groups.

Over the past year it’s suffered a series of blows, such as being forced to make a public apology and pay $3.4 million in defamation damages to Maajid Nawaz’s Quilliam Foundation, the ouster of co-founder Morris Dees for “inappropriate conduct,” and testimony from insiders that the organization is a “highly profitable scam” and that Dees saw “civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; christians; conservatives; hategroups; leftists; safetypartner; scandal; socialmedia; splc; twitter
Good news.
1 posted on 04/16/2019 8:24:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They surely have others equally bad or worse.


2 posted on 04/16/2019 8:27:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If Twitter even for one second thought the SPLC was anything but far left radicals, then they’re being run by liberal morons who don’t know anything but coding. In other words, NPC’s.


3 posted on 04/16/2019 8:28:21 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Okay, how about FR picking up the slack? Okay, dreaming.


4 posted on 04/16/2019 8:28:44 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Bullish

” then they’re being run by liberal morons who don’t know anything but coding. In other words, NPC’s.” When was that ever in doubt? Jack Dorsey is a rabid leftist.


5 posted on 04/16/2019 8:32:37 PM PDT by Fungi
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6 posted on 04/16/2019 8:33:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

7 posted on 04/16/2019 8:35:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It was always a money making scam since Morris Dees dreamed it up.

The Ministry of Propaganda found it useful.


8 posted on 04/16/2019 8:35:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

this isn’t just good news, this is huge news!


9 posted on 04/16/2019 8:40:24 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The ADL is just as bad, and I expect there be an attempt to create a new institution to fill the vacuum.


10 posted on 04/16/2019 8:45:43 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Secret Agent Man

SPLC is the worst... bunch of haters.


11 posted on 04/16/2019 9:43:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (If illegals voted Republican Pelosi herself would be down at the border laying bricks. freeperbk1000)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Seems like Twitter was conspiring with SPLC in their hate activities. They should be held responsible for any damages created.


12 posted on 04/16/2019 9:50:20 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Now if we can only get those pics of Dorsey humping animals we can turn this thing around.


13 posted on 04/16/2019 10:21:50 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Mount Athos

Yes. Now the federal government needs to sever ties to SPLC as a resource, if they have not done so already.


14 posted on 04/17/2019 1:59:18 AM PDT by deks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Silently? Hrumph.

No mea culpa.

No apology.

Stalinism is alive. “Forward!”


15 posted on 04/17/2019 3:32:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I wonder if the FBI will stop working with them now.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/30/fbi-southern-poverty-law-center-partnership-alarms/


16 posted on 04/17/2019 4:14:01 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It was always a money making scam since Morris Dees dreamed it up.
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It would be revealing to know the extent to which the operations of the SPLC have been coordinated with the objectives of the Democrat Party since its founding.


17 posted on 04/17/2019 6:59:40 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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