Activists Are Trying To Force Mastercard To Cut Off Payments To The Far Right
Activists Are Trying To Force Mastercard To Cut Off Payments To The Far Right
The payment giants shareholders will vote on a proposal to set up a human rights committee at the company to monitor money flowing to hate groups.
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Activists have successfully forced Mastercard to hold a vote by shareholders on a proposal which, if passed, could see the company monitoring payments to global far-right political leaders and white supremacist groups.
The proposal aims to see Mastercard establish an internal human rights committee that would stop designated white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists, such as Tommy Robinson, from getting access to money sent from donors using the companys card payment services.
Its been conceived by US-based political activists SumOfUs, who want to escalate the battle against white supremacists and far-right groups from tech platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Patreon, and PayPal to one of the biggest companies in world finance, in an attempt to choke off donations.
Robinson and several other leading figures in the global far right have been forced in recent months to solicit donations directly on their websites via Mastercard, Visa, and American Express after PayPal banned payments to them. Facebook also disabled the donation function on Robinsons fan page before deleting it completely.
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