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    Progressive activists rip Facebook for sponsoring Republican National Convention

    06 MAY 2016 AT 23:29 ET By Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian

    Company to provide ‘financial and other support’ but insists it doesn’t constitute endorsement – but progressive organizations say they’re supporting Trump

    Facebook will sponsor the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer providing “financial and other support” – despite pressure from progressive organizations and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own veiled criticisms of presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.

    “This support allows Facebook to facilitate an open dialogue among voters, candidates and elected officials during the conventions, just as it has during other critical moments in the US elections and in elections around the world,” Erin Egan, Facebook’s vice president of public policy, said in a statement.

    Facebook maintains that its sponsorship of the GOP convention, which will reportedly include a “lounge”, does not constitute an endorsement, but the announcement has angered a coalition of organizations that have launched campaigns urging technology companies and other corporations not to sponsor the party of Trump.

    “Lifting up Donald Trump’s fascist platform at the Republican National Convention is irresponsible and dangerous,” said Murshed Zaheed, political director of the progressive activist network CREDO. “It simply isn’t possible for Facebook to financially support a Trump-led Republican convention without associating its brand with Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric.”

    At Facebook’s developer conference in April, Zuckerberg made guarded remarks about Trump describing “fearful voices talking about building walls”.

    “I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases, even for cutting access to the internet,” he added.

    Facebook employees have also had internal conversations about whether the powerful media platform has a “responsibility … to help prevent President Trump in 2017”, according to Gizmodo.

    Zuckerberg’s comments may have raised expectations that Facebook would balk at sponsoring an event that will mark Trump’s official nomination as the Republican presidential candidate, but the CEO and his company have stymied liberal hopes in the past.

    In 2013, Zuckerberg’s political lobbying group Fwd.us paid for political advertisementssupporting the Keystone XL pipeline, in a convoluted (and unsuccessful) play to win Republican votes for immigration reform.

    Recently, Facebook has been under pressure from groups such as Color of Change to improve the diversity of its staff and to crack down on harassment and hate speech on its platform.

    “When you put together those two things and add on the fact that they’re choosing to sponsor a convention that is a coronation ball for a white nationalist who has said vile things about Latino people, Black people, Muslim people and women, it’s troubling that Facebook would make a decision to host a lounge,” said Arisha Hatch, managing director of campaigns for Color of Change.

    Hatch said Facebook had convened a conference call with her and other organizations on Thursday to discuss the decision to host the convention, but did not back away from its position.

    “Facebook, like Google, has a responsibility to support free speech, not the kind of chilling hate speech propagated by a Trump-led GOP convention,” said Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, who has worked with Facebook to address the problem of harassment of racial justice organizers on the platform.

    “Facebook has expressed what I hoped was a genuine desire to ensure all its users were safe on its platform,” she said, but its support of the convention “discounts that work, and makes everyone, including Facebook users of color, less safe, less secure, and less supported online”.

    Facebook is not the only tech company facing criticism for its sponsorship of the GOP convention.

    On Thursday, CREDO released a video featuring clips of Trump’s calling Mexicans rapists and calling for a total ban on Muslims entering the US and criticizing Google for its decision to sponsor the RNC.

    The video will be advertised to more than 10,000 employees of Google, using micro-targeting – on Facebook.

    Progressive activists rip Facebook for sponsoring Republican National Convention



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    Okay, let me get this straight, Democrat "Progressives" are worried about what someone calls illegal aliens from Mexico, who we ban from entering the US as new immigrants and refugees we feel may be national security threats, what slur someone called Rosie O'Donnell 20 years ago in a counter-punch as part of a publicity stunt for the View?

    You know there's an ole saying back home that when you're so out of goods you start eating your own crap, you need to stop eating and go to work.

    American Voters don't care what someone calls illegal aliens from Mexico who commit rape in the United States. We call Americans who commit rape "rapists", so it makes sense to call illegal aliens from Mexico committing rape in the United States "rapists".

    American Voters are sick and tired, fed up to the gills, frankly, with the foreign Muslim religion that was behind 9/11, the Boston Marathon, the Fort Hood Massacre, the San Bernardino Massacre and many others. We're choking on the cost of "regime change" in these stupid pathetic countries where their religion creates civil war or dictators to keep the peace or Sharia Law that violates human rights and drags our stupid incompetent politicians into foreign wars to try to make things better for them.

    No nation on earth has done more for the people of foreign Muslim countries than the United States. We're embroiled in two decades long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're caught up in regime change in Syria and Libya. We're hounded to take their people they run out for one reason or another.

    AMERICANS are fed up with Muslimism. We really are. This has nothing to do with American Muslims. This has nothing to do with most Muslim immigrants who are already here. It has to do with the FLOOD the UN wants to pour into the United States. If you're an American who migrated from one of these places, you better stop eating your own crap and wake the hell up, or the country you think you enjoy living in will become just another hell-hole like the one you fled.

    Donald Trump is the only one who gets this, who understands the difference between American Muslims and Foreign Muslims. Donald Trump is protecting our nation and people, and that is who we want to be our President.

    So when you want to implore Facebook to shun him, you are imploring Facebook to shun US.

    Those are facts, try eating some of those with your Cheeriios in the morning.

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