Petition updateSquarespace: Stop Hosting White Supremacists20,000 Signatures! Tell Squarespace what you think!

Joseph BrownBoston, MA, United States
Jun 1, 2017
Dear friends,
Our petition hit a new milestone today: 20,000 signatures! Thank you for supporting this effort -- signing, forwarding, and sharing via social media.
This is the type of campaign that has yielded results with other tech companies. Soundcloud, for instance, recently banned Richard Spencer from their service. Although Squarespace has so far turned a deaf ear, they will feel compelled to act as more tech companies take up their moral responsibility to remove hate content from their services. Our job is to keep the heat on Squarespace until they cannot ignore their responsibility (and the impact a boycott will have on their bottom line).
Today, please spend a few seconds (politely) telling Squarespace management that you expect them to enforce their own Acceptable Use policies forbidding racial, religious, and other forms of bigotry. A sample tweet is here:
.@AndrewBart please enforce @squarespace ToS & stop hosting white supremacists. 20,000 ppl signed this petition bit.ly/boycottsquarespace
Below are the Twitter handles of some other Squarespace folks. Send a couple of messages -- and please be polite as you remind them that you will boycott their services until they act. We want them to know that a lot of conscientious people will withhold business until they do the right thing.
@acasalena (CEO)
@johnrcolton (Vice President for Engineering)
@dmklee (Chief Creative Officer)
@slevene (Investor)
@JonathanDKlein (Board Member)
@esquareda (Developer)
@pixelmelter (Designer)
@uxdiogenes (Designer)
@gpena (Product Manager)
@mattrubin (Product Manager)
@Heilemann (Product Design)
@coultonvento (iOS)
@emilyxxie (Software Engineer)
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