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Over the previous week, backlash erupted on LinkedIn, in a thread the place passionate open supply builders started criticizing Pantheon. The builders and different Pantheon supporters commenting had simply found that the web site operations platform—which hosts greater than 700,000 web sites—is presently internet hosting web sites for vastly influential anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigration organizations which have been designated as hate teams by the Southern Poverty Legislation Heart (SPLC).
The controversy sparked after a digital strategist, Greg Dunlap, posted a hyperlink to SPLC’s web page designating a Christian conservative authorized advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), as a hate group for its views on the LGBTQ neighborhood. On the web page, SPLC described ADF as supporting “recriminalization of sexual acts between consenting LGBTQ adults within the US and criminalization overseas,” defending “state-sanctioned sterilization of trans individuals overseas,” and claiming {that a} “gay agenda” will “destroy Christianity and society.”
In his LinkedIn submit, Dunlap tagged Pantheon co-founders Josh Koenig and Zack Rosen, and requested them why Pantheon is internet hosting an internet site for the alleged hate group. ADF additionally has ties to high-ranking Republicans and has influenced Supreme Court docket opinions (together with the choice to overturn Roe v. Wade).
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