Google May Face RICO, Defamation Lawsuits Due to SPLC Partnership, Lawyers Say

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

The hate group SPLC has smeared and libeled every effective voice of the right, including myself. This is long overdue. The “work” of the hate group SPLC is to smear, defame and libel anyone who effectively counters the hard-left/Islamic agenda. Veterans, tea party patriots, counter terror activists, even Presidential candidates on the right have been the target of their smear campaigns. They wield enormous power in the information battle space — media, movies, academia, etc. The idea that information behemoth Google is using these destroyers to filter search results is chilling.

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Google May Face RICO, Defamation Lawsuits Due to SPLC Partnership, Lawyer says

In recent years, the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has faced a slew of lawsuits regarding its deceptive practice of branding mainstream conservative and Christian groups “hate groups” on par with the Ku Klux Klan. Google has decided to partner with the SPLC, even encouraging employees to work for the organization. Conservative lawyers told PJ Media this partnership may make the tech giant vulnerable to defamation and racketeering lawsuits.

This month, Fortune reported that Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, launched a program that will pay Google employees to do pro bono work for nonprofit groups for up to six months. The company aims to achieve 50,000 hours of pro bono work this year. Google.org names the SPLC as one of its partners for “inclusion.” Google.org started funding the far-Left group in 2016, and has given the organization $250,000, specifically to fund a “total redesign of the Teaching Tolerance website.”

“Teaching Tolerance,” an SPLC project aimed at teachers for elementary, middle, and high schools across America, has referenced the SPLC’s “hate map,” endorsing the “hate group” labels, before and after Google.org funding. Even if Teaching Tolerance were distanced from the “hate group” smears, Google.org explicitly names the SPLC as the recipient of funding and the partner — which likely means Google employees can do pro bono work for the SPLC.

“It does appear that there’s more than funding that is taking place between Google and the SPLC and other tech companies, to the point where there’s interaction, potentially plotting, and the involvement of their so-called ‘hate group’ label that is designed for one reason — to destroy the opposition based on ideology,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told PJ Media. He said “it’s plausible” Google may face RICO and defamation charges in future lawsuits.

“If I was Google’s corporate counsel, I would be telling my board of directors that this is a very bad decision and they should not be involved with this organization,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former in-house corporate counsel, told PJ Media.

“I think that opens them up to potential liability. If one of their organizations is working for the SPLC, when the SPLC is sued under defamation or a RICO suit, that could potentially bring Google into the lawsuit,” von Spakovsky added.

Google did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

A growing number of individuals and organizations have filed lawsuits against the far-Left group in recent years. The Christian nonprofit Liberty Counsel led the charge in June 2017, accusing the charity navigation website GuideStar of violating consumer protection laws by using SPLC’s false and defamatory labels. D. James Kennedy Ministries followed with a defamation suit in August of that year. Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz also filed a defamation suit, since the SPLC had branded him an “anti-Islamic extremist.”

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brock marks
brock marks
5 years ago

good, about time goolag get sued

scherado
scherado
5 years ago

I’ve been boycotting Gew-gul since 2007. My efforts have done nothing to end their juggernaut. I have used !yahoo. But let me reveal something. My preferred browser, “firefox” has DROPPED the !Yahoo search engine from their search-engine list in their most recent version, v64. I was, recently, FORCED to upgrade because some of the websites I frequent could not be displayed properly with v62. I now have to use “Bing.”

John Smith
John Smith
5 years ago
Reply to  scherado

yahoo is in bed with gew-gul….stop kidding yourself. The best search engine out there that protects your privacy is
https://duckduckgo.com/
Just as good if not better search results and they don’t store your search history. I am in no way affiliated with them. I haven’t used gew-gul in about 6 months and I don’t miss them one bit.

scherado
scherado
5 years ago
Reply to  John Smith

yahoo is in bed with gew-gul..

Should I take your word for it? I haven’t used gew-ghul in 11 years, what are you bragging about? I’ll ducky-duck, firefox offers it.

John Smith
John Smith
5 years ago
Reply to  scherado

Nope..don’t take my word for it. I was simply offering some freindly advice. I only use firefox and it works well. You just keep using yahoo….it’s the same evil as google.

scherado
scherado
5 years ago
Reply to  John Smith

I’ve already mentioned that Yahoo is not available with the current version of firefox, thanks for nothing.

John Smith
John Smith
5 years ago
Reply to  scherado

And I offered you a viable alternative..trying to be a good soul. You chose to be a dick. Bing is just as shitty….their results are biased as well. Go Bing yourself.

scherado
scherado
5 years ago
Reply to  John Smith

You’ve been added as New Kid On The Block (list). Congratulations.

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
5 years ago
Reply to  scherado

scherado,I hate to tell you but Yahoo is leftard controlled.
They recently deplatformed my counter terror website Silver Bullet Gun Oil.
NO explanation,they REFUSE to have a discussion or even tell me WHY it was pulled after 13 years.

scherado
scherado
5 years ago

Well, I already changed to ducky-duck. My beef with Gew-gul is based on something they did in 2007 to me personally, related to the death of my dog.

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago

Is Google Evil ?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

I assume that’s a rhetorical question.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Sitrep Venezuela Jan 28 2019: A Classic Revolution
– this shows how most revolutions unfold:
– 1. Chavez/ Maduro promised to make life better for everyone
– 2. began one man rule, oligarchy aggregated around him
– dumped the democratic free-enterprise republic
– revised, re-wrote, ignored the constitution
– 3. raised money from borrowing, asset seizure, raising taxes
– the leader spent the money making most lives better
– 4. the leader took control of the means of production
– nationalized directly or controlled big companies
– 5. the Laffer curve took hold: 100% tax rates = 0% production
– free enterprise collapsed
– 6. as people’s lives got worse, military and police crushed dissent
– 7. beneficiaries of the gov’t were absolutely convinced the govt worked
– people whose lives got worse absolutely blamed the leader
– leader refused to restore the democratic free-enterprise republic
– 8. there are 3 possible outcomes:
– A. military and police join the dissenters = gov’t collapses peacefully
– e.g., USSR
– B. military and police support the leaders = civil war ensues
– dissenters lose e.g., Iran 2009
– dissenters win e.g., USA 1776

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Obama / Hillary were interrupted in their power progression
– at about stage 3
– when Democrats regain control, they will resume at stage 2
– they will be supported by the oligarchy that aggregates around them
– who are mostly urban
– and people will be worse off in rural, ex-urban, and suburban areas
– Trump is strengthening conservative support
– in the military, police, farmers, rural, ex-urban, and suburban areas
– in preparation for the coming conflict

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

Agree. After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and
jihadis suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

And now MS has got new way to shutdown all major conservative news websites like Breitbart using new tool
call “newsguard” and allow Leftists fake news to show up as “real News”

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

Yes.

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight
Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

What is a hate group?
An organization that oppresses oppressed people.
There are Africans enslaved in Muhammadist tyrannies, atheists imprisoned there, girls forcibly declitorized & raped there.
Where is their organization?
It sure is not Google or the SPLC. Instead the SPLC persecutes Pamela Geller.
Trump might be influenced by the SPLC.
He intimidated Pamela Geller with the words “Why is she insulting everybody?”.
Why is Saudi Arabia, Iran & all Muhammadist tyrannies not on the SPLC hate-map.
Saudi Arabia is outside the USA-territory? Think again: Saudi Arabia owns the biggest stake of Twitter.
Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed today in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

RICO enforcement against Google couldn’t happen to a more worthy bunch…

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
5 years ago

Omg Google was pushing this gem the other day from the beacon of journalistic integrity called “Deadspin” (LOL), where they reported on “Worthless” Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, and on second reference as “This dork…”
Omg, Google and Deapsin, you suck beyond belief.
Eat sh*t.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Sleep with the dogs and wake up with fleas. Sleep with Morris Dees and wake up with HIV. Sleep with Bill Gates and wake up with a vaccine needle in your arm. Sleep with Warren Buffett and wake up with empty pockets.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

During my early LEO days I heard that the traditional Mafia wasn’t gone but had become so much like “legitimate” business they were hard to see. Seems they graduated to the Google level of acceptable business practices. Chew on that for a bit…

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
5 years ago

SPLC fabricated a phone conversation which I suppposedly gave them in order for them to put my counter-terror product Silver Bullet Gun Oil on their “Hatewatch” list and have me continually harassed with hang up calls and with death threats,payment processing shut off,and finally have my counter-terror website Silver Bullet Gun Oil deplatformed several months ago.

If you’re an attorney either considering or pursuing a Class Action lawsuit against SPLC and cohorts,contact me silverbulletgunoil@gmail.com

I would like very,very much to bitchslap that crew of leftest mutts where it hurts,in their offshore accounts,which BTW,Is it even legal for a Non-Profit organization to even have offshore accounts with 10s of MILLIONS of dollars stashed in them and STILL be given the tax breaks of a Non-Profit org????
Semper Fi
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Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
5 years ago

We’ll give your gun oil a try! Thanks! & good luck against the scumbags!

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago

Truth is now a currency in short supply.
Be very watchful of all sources.

Cai
Cai
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

A very wise caution.

LeslieFish
LeslieFish
5 years ago

Note that the FBI no longer considers the SPLC a reliable source, and has quietly removed its links to the SPLC from its website home page.

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