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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Hundreds of companies use the software company Benevity to connect with nonprofits, allowing employees to donate their time and money, but Benevity systematically blacklists conservative nonprofits, and those nonprofits are now speaking out. “We, the undersigned organizations, urge Benevity to immediately end the use of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Hate Map’ and ‘Hate List’ in determining which nonprofits are eligible for corporate charitable giving and employee matching programs,” reads the letter, signed by 12 conservative groups and exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal. “By relying on these partisan designations, Benevity legitimizes a severely biased blacklist that inspires violence, urges discrimination against mainstream organizations, and undermines the spirit of charitable giving,” the letter adds. Benevity Benevity provides a platform for corporations to manage philanthropic efforts, such as providing a way for employees to donate to nonprofits before taxes, matching employee contributions, facilitating employee volunteering, and making corporate grants to nonprofits. According to its website, Benevity connects “nearly 1,000 enterprise companies” to a network of 513,000 nonprofits after vetting 2.2 million of them. It says it has managed $16 billion in grants and 99 million employee volunteer hours. In 2023, more than 2.3 million people donated through the Benevity platform, representing $3.2 billion. 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit that exposes bias in corporate businesses, has counted 224 of the Fortune 1,000 companies that use Benevity. The list includes Accenture, Adobe, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, American Express, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Cigna, Coca Cola, Costco, John Deere, Lowe’s, Macy’s, McDonalds, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, Paramount, Salesforce, Spotify, UPS, and many more. In 2021, then-Benevity CEO Kelly Schmitt delivered a PowerPoint presentation explicitly stating that the company had “vetted” almost “2 million nonprofits,” adding that it used the “Southern Poverty Law Center Hate List.” The conservative nonprofits’ letter notes that “there are also recent reports of employees from major corporations that Benevity’s system blocked them from donating to Turning Point USA because of the SPLC’s designation. At the same time, left-leaning political groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Planned Parenthood remain fully eligible for Benevity’s platform.” The SPLC The SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, but it now puts mainstream conservative and Christian groups on a “hate map” with Klan groups, suggesting they represent a similar threat to Americans. The SPLC “hate map” includes Alliance Defending Freedom, a premier conservative Christian law firm that has won multiple cases at the U.S. Supreme Court; Do No Harm, a group of doctors committed to ridding medicine of divisive racial ideologies and opposed to “gender-affirming care;” the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which monitors the threat of radical Islamist extremism; and Moms for Liberty, a group of parents demanding a say in their kids’ education. These and other groups signed the letter to Benevity. “The SPLC’s claim to be a civil rights organization cannot be taken seriously,” the signatories wrote. “Instead, it is a political weapon that targets mainstream libertarian, conservative, religious, and family advocacy organizations for ideological reasons.” The signatories claim the SPLC attacks organizations “not because of violence or extremism, but because they dissent from the SPLC’s preferred progressive orthodoxy.” Inspiring Violence The letter notes that the “hate list” Benevity uses to screen nonprofits has inspired violence. “In 2012, a gunman entered the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C., headquarters intending to commit mass murder,” the letter states. “He later admitted that he chose his target after seeing it labeled on the SPLC’s website. By using the SPLC’s lists to vet charities, Benevity reinforces and perpetuates a dangerous mechanism that has already been used to justify violence against peaceful Americans.” The Family Research Council also signed the letter. The letter also notes that the SPLC added Turning Point USA to its “hate map” earlier this year, shortly before the assassination of Turning Point USA’s founder, Charlie Kirk. “While federal authorities have not yet confirmed whether the assassin accessed the SPLC’s website, the timing and context raise deeply troubling questions.” “SPLC leadership itself has admitted that its ultimate goal is not to educate the public but to ‘destroy’ its ideological opponents,” the letter adds. After the Kirk assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Signal that all of the bureau’s “ties with the SPLC have been officially terminated.” He called the group a “partisan smear machine” and said its “disgraceful record” makes the group “unfit for any FBI partnership.” The conservative groups ask Benevity to “publicly end its use of the SPLC’s hate list and hate map, adopt a viewpoint-neutral process for nonprofit eligibility, and restore access to organizations unfairly excluded.” They note that Benevity’s new CEO, Soraya Alexander, will start on Nov. 1, and add that this transition “presents a valuable opportunity” for the new CEO to champion fairness and objectivity. The conservative groups also urge corporations using Benevity’s platform to join them in asking the platform to disavow the SPLC, and to “discontinue their partnership with Benevity until these changes are made.” “Charitable giving should empower generosity, not enforce ideology,” the letter concludes. The list of signatories includes Alliance Defending Freedom, the American Family Association, the Center for Christian Virtue, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Do No Harm, the Family Policy Alliance, the Family Research Council, GenSpect, Moms for Liberty, Partners for Ethical Care, 1792 Exchange, and Them Before Us. Benevity Open LetterDownload The post The Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists Conservatives, and How Some Are Fighting Back appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Governments around the world have a long history of introducing laws that restrict speech while insisting they are not acts of censorship. Each new proposal is framed as a measure to promote safety, combat misinformation, or protect vulnerable communities, yet the result is often the same: expanded state authority over what citizens can say or share. Now Canada’s Attorney General Sean Fraser is attempting to reassure Canadians that the federal government’s new hate speech legislation, Bill C-9, is not a disguised attempt to police online expression. The proposal, already facing strong opposition from free expression advocates, introduces new “hate-related” offenses and expands police powers over what is labeled “hatred” in the Criminal Code. Fraser told MPs that the government is not seeking to criminalize internet activity that is currently legal. “We should recognize there are many acts we may find offensive that do not constitute hate for the purpose of the Criminal Code,” he said during his appearance before the Commons justice committee. He insisted the bill’s purpose is not censorship, even as he confirmed that its provisions would apply equally to speech on the internet and in public spaces. The legislation, officially titled An Act To Amend The Criminal Code (Combatting Hate Act), also bans the display of Nazi and Hamas symbols that are deemed to promote hatred, makes it an offense to obstruct religious or cultural ceremonies, and rewrites how “hatred” is defined. The bill frames it as “the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than disdain or dislike.” Free speech advocates have warned that this rewording lowers the legal bar by abandoning the Supreme Court’s requirement that hatred must be “an emotion of an intense and extreme nature.” Fraser responded that any online statement would only be subject to prosecution if it already met the threshold for hate propaganda under existing law. “The only circumstance where you could imagine some online comment attracting scrutiny under this law would attach to behavior that is criminal today but is punished less severely,” he told the committee. The federal government has repeatedly tried to expand hate speech laws in recent years. Two previous efforts, Bills C-36 and C-63, collapsed under public pressure and procedural failure. Bill C-36 would have allowed fines of up to $70,000 or house arrest for “legal content deemed to incite hatred,” while the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) proposed life sentences for repeat offenders and monetary rewards for complainants. Both were shelved before becoming law. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Canada’s AG Claims Anti-“Hate” Law Isn’t About Censorship appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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