If the Southern Poverty Law Center declares you to be a “hate group,” you can pretty much kiss your income goodbye. You can bet that you will be deplatformed from YouTube and Patreon and Facebook and the like; PayPal and credit card companies and banks and such will likely refuse to do business with you. It is a *substantial* power that the SPLC wields… and people are getting sick of it.

Immigration group files suit to force Southern Poverty Law Center revoke ‘hate’ label

The Center for Immigration Studies has filed a lawsuit against the SPLC in a US District Court to force the SPLC to back off on their name-calling. The problem as I see it is that the damage is already done. What the CfIS *should* do is not only demand a retraction but also substantial financial damages. The SPLC is, ironically, hardly poor, with many millions in offshore bank accounts. What they do can be argued as being secured under the First Amendment… and it can also be argued as being extortion since they can destroy you with a single press release, which means they fall under RICO.