Jeremy Tedesco

and the European Union, and the UK is relying on SPLC-type organizational outputs to decide who can speak online.

So it's really an insidious thing.

And so even if SPLC ultimately comes to an end here in the United States,

The fight continues.

Quite a few companies actually have unfortunately used them to screen employee matching gift donations and say, look, you can give to any nonprofit unless they're on the hate group list.

And so this year we had several corporations do the right thing even before this indictment came out, like Salesforce and Meta and a few other big corporations decided to end their reliance on SPLC in that context.

But there are other corporations that continue to rely on them, Starbucks, Caterpillar.

And so there's a lot more work to do in that space.

I think this indictment

gives us another opportunity to go back to them and say, look, we told you all the reasons you shouldn't rely on the SPLC.

Now they're under federal indictment for wire fraud, you know, and making illegal statements to banks and playing a shell game with their money, their donors' money.

So, you know, at some point, I think the corporations will ultimately all just walk away from the SPLC.

And if that happens, they lose a lot of their influence and a lot of the toxicity will no longer be relevant to American lives.

I think nobody should be surprised.

The SPLC has been criticized for decades by people on the right and the left for the apparent corruption inside that organization.

In 2019,

There's a huge uproar when their employees came out and said, it was reported everywhere, that there was a huge problem with racism and sexism inside the organization.

Employees after that story came out, you know, a few years later came out and said, nothing happened.

They just swept it all under the rug.

And the problems with the hate map being a fraud and a scam have been pointed out for years as well by their own employees.