Giant tech moguls have donated more than $7 million to groups tied to BLM co-founder Patriss Khan-Cullors.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Patricia Ann Quillin, the wife of Netflix’s CEO, donated generously to Cullor’s groups and associated charities, the New York Post reported.
The BLM co-founder started lobbying for ‘net neutrality’ in 2014, one year after she co-founded the BLM movement. The policy financially benefits online content providers such as Netflix and other social media platforms.
In an opinion piece she wrote for The Hill in 2014, Khan-Cullors said: “The continued growth of this movement and its capacity to respond nimbly and effectively to the brutal and biased policing of Black communities depends, in part, on access to a non-discriminatory Internet.”
Only days later, activist groups traveled to Capitol Hill and began to lobby members of the Federal Communications Commission and Congress on the matter.
Khan-Cullors has given speeches denouncing ISPs and espousing net neutrality.
In her op-ed, she wrote: “Telecommunications companies are very clear that discrimination is a lucrative business.
“That’s why they’ve lined up seemingly strange bedfellows to oppose an open and free Internet. Jesse Jackson, the National Urban League … Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz have teamed up to change the Internet to an unequal one in which Black voices may have to pay more to be heard.”
In 2015, Cullors described herself as a ‘trained Marxist.’ Last December, she explained in a YouTube video: “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.”
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