Re:Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
by TheodolphusRose on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:40PM
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That's a different and completely unrelated [1] organization that happens to have a similar name (Black Lives Matter Foundation vs Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation).
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/black-lives-mat...
Re:Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
by lupire on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:04PM
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BLMF was a single person running a small scam.
BLMGN was a small group running a big scam. It was mostly a sink for corporate "blackwashing" PR spend, as megacorps rushed to fake "doing something woke" in 2020.
Both hijacked the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter for profit.
Re:Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
by encryptluks2 on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:51PM
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Yeah, it seems here that people are just getting confused about which organization is actually in charge due to two different organizations registering very similar names. I wonder if they trademarked the brand Black Lives Matter, and if so if they attempted to enforce it to prevent something like this from happening, or if they are in fact affiliated with each other.
Re:Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
by cudgy on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:04PM
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Maybe there should be a BLM ETF with all the organizations in one bucket? Then you can spread out your risk in case one of them actually intends to be legitimate. Excuse the sarcasm.
Corporations are more concerned about the signal donating money sends than the actual effectiveness of the receiving organization. Did Amazon independently donate any money to this organization?
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=473691474&name=...
Amazon doesn't really get a choice in the matter here.