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On 25 Apr 2021, Ed Stasiak <edstasiak1067@gmail.com> posted some news:7b40399a-26ac-46d3-93fc-32b61451c893n@googlegroups.com:

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.

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