Boycott Eventbrite for Hosting White Supremacists


Boycott Eventbrite for Hosting White Supremacists
The Issue
From the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/28/eventbrite-allows-white-nationalist-group-sell-tickets
Eventbrite, one of the world’s largest platforms for planning, promoting, and selling tickets to live events is perfectly fine with white nationalists using its services, so long as they aren’t open about their beliefs on the Eventbrite platform. The National Policy Institute (NPI), a leading white nationalist “think tank” that is particularly popular among younger racists, has been cleared under the company’s Terms of Service by a member of the Eventbrite Trust and Safety team.
After being contacted by Hatewatch about the organization’s usage of the platform to promote its semi-annual events at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Eventbrite responded with the following statement:
“After careful review, we feel that this event that was published on Eventbrite is not in violation of our Terms of Service. Eventbrite seeks to bring people together through live experiences. We strive to allow organizers of all walks of life to create and host events, as long as they are not in violation of our Terms of Service and the information provided on the Eventbrite platform for this event abides by our community guidelines.”
That is to say, Eventbrite is happy to help promote and sell tickets to an event that is aimed at indoctrinating millennials into an ideology that seeks to create a white ethnostate and openly promotes lies about minority groups, so long as they aren’t openly advertising their beliefs in the event description. Per the organization’s terms of service agreement, Eventbrite will only take action should any racially or ethnically objectionable content is “uploaded, posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available” through their platform. Apparently linking to the NPI site is well within the bounds of acceptable behavior.
When asked about whether Eventbrite would take a similar stance if the Ku Klux Klanor a neo-Nazi organization were using their services in a similar fashion, a representative from the press team declined to comment and instead reiterated that NPI was within the bounds of Eventbrite’s terms of service.
NPI currently has two events listed on the Eventbrite platform. One event in late February features notable white nationalist and xenophobe Peter Brimelow, editor ofVDARE, an immigrant bashing online publication named for the first white child born in the British colonies, Virginia Dare, and Jared Taylor, the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a white nationalist web publication dedicated to “academic racism” that spans topics like eugenics and “black-on-white crime.”
BOYCOTT EVENTBRITE UNTIL IT AGREES TO NO LONGER HOST HATE GROUPS.
The Issue
From the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/01/28/eventbrite-allows-white-nationalist-group-sell-tickets
Eventbrite, one of the world’s largest platforms for planning, promoting, and selling tickets to live events is perfectly fine with white nationalists using its services, so long as they aren’t open about their beliefs on the Eventbrite platform. The National Policy Institute (NPI), a leading white nationalist “think tank” that is particularly popular among younger racists, has been cleared under the company’s Terms of Service by a member of the Eventbrite Trust and Safety team.
After being contacted by Hatewatch about the organization’s usage of the platform to promote its semi-annual events at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Eventbrite responded with the following statement:
“After careful review, we feel that this event that was published on Eventbrite is not in violation of our Terms of Service. Eventbrite seeks to bring people together through live experiences. We strive to allow organizers of all walks of life to create and host events, as long as they are not in violation of our Terms of Service and the information provided on the Eventbrite platform for this event abides by our community guidelines.”
That is to say, Eventbrite is happy to help promote and sell tickets to an event that is aimed at indoctrinating millennials into an ideology that seeks to create a white ethnostate and openly promotes lies about minority groups, so long as they aren’t openly advertising their beliefs in the event description. Per the organization’s terms of service agreement, Eventbrite will only take action should any racially or ethnically objectionable content is “uploaded, posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available” through their platform. Apparently linking to the NPI site is well within the bounds of acceptable behavior.
When asked about whether Eventbrite would take a similar stance if the Ku Klux Klanor a neo-Nazi organization were using their services in a similar fashion, a representative from the press team declined to comment and instead reiterated that NPI was within the bounds of Eventbrite’s terms of service.
NPI currently has two events listed on the Eventbrite platform. One event in late February features notable white nationalist and xenophobe Peter Brimelow, editor ofVDARE, an immigrant bashing online publication named for the first white child born in the British colonies, Virginia Dare, and Jared Taylor, the founder and editor of American Renaissance, a white nationalist web publication dedicated to “academic racism” that spans topics like eugenics and “black-on-white crime.”
BOYCOTT EVENTBRITE UNTIL IT AGREES TO NO LONGER HOST HATE GROUPS.
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Petition created on January 30, 2016