Posted on 05/01/2019 6:48:09 PM PDT by Libloather
Activists have successfully forced Mastercard to hold a vote by shareholders on a proposal which, if passed, could see the company monitoring payments to global far-right political leaders and white supremacist groups.
The proposal aims to see Mastercard establish an internal “human rights committee” that would stop designated white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists, such as Tommy Robinson, from getting access to money sent from donors using the company’s card payment services.
It’s been conceived by US-based political activists SumOfUs, who want to escalate the battle against white supremacists and far-right groups from tech platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Patreon, and PayPal to one of the biggest companies in world finance, in an attempt to choke off donations.
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Far right? White nationalist? But assclowns that hate all things conservative are just fine and dandy. Even the far left fascists.
I would like to see their definition of those (loaded) terms.
At least it’s not the goberment. Derp.
Preposterous.
I thought MC was non-political.
Ping
Defenders of Western Civilization = “Far right”
They will be non-USABLE in my house if this goes through.
They will be non-USABLE in my house if this goes through.
I’m not a biblical scholar. But, this strikes me as “mark of the beast” territory, in that, you will have to be certified to do business with Mastercard. Can Visa and American Express be far behind? And then, the same logic can apply to all of our bank accounts.
Here is the true reason. The "white supremacists" is just a front.
They will use this to assert you can't be anti-terrorist.
People who do this kind of thing used to be called “common scolds” and got tied to a chair and dunked in a river repeatedly.
Just more left wing strong arm nazi bull shit.
That would be very strange to go after white supremacist groups but not go after nasty racists like the democrat party.
In the 60s Saul Allinsky taught to take over a country you must take over its instituons from the inside.
We are now seeing this theory in full bloom.
Incidentally, the founder of SumOfUs, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, was involved with Aaron Swartz of SecureDrop, who was arrested for breaking into MIT computers.
I haven’t seen or heard of MasterCard for decades.
I kind of figured that.
Yeah — look at the outrage over the criticism of “Some People Did Something” Omar.
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