Business Index Exposes Corporations Threatening Free Speech and Religious Freedoms

Several major corporations have been exposed for their support of suppressing the free speech and religious freedoms of the American people.

Many companies celebrate โ€œtransparencyโ€ when it comes to โ€œwokeโ€ issues such as diversity, gender identity, and โ€œclimate change.โ€

However, they often remain silent on issues like free speech and other constitutional rights.

Non-profit Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has just published this yearโ€™s Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index.

The index puts the spotlight on corporations with little respect for freedom of faith and speech, putting Americans at risk of getting punished for their beliefs.

The index measures how tolerant a corporation is when it comes to respecting free speech and religious freedom.

Out of the 75 major corporations evaluated in the index, only two businesses scored more than 25 percent out of a maximum of 100 percent possible in terms of respect for speech and religion.

ADF calls this a sign that millions of everyday U.S. citizens are at โ€œrisk of cancellation or punishment for their views,โ€ according to a May 16 press release.

Policies and practices at behemoths like JPMorgan Chase, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and PayPal โ€œthreaten the fundamental freedomsโ€ of Americans, it said.

Other low-scoring companies include Disney, Twitter, Pinterest, PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Alphabet, and Airbnb, with these firms scoring 5 percent or less.

The firm that scored the highest in the index was Florida-based multinational Fidelity National Information Services at 50 percent.

This was followed by M&T Bank at 25 percent, BOK Financial at 17 percent, and Apollo Global Management and Fifth Third Bancorp at 15 percent each.

Media conglomerate Fox scored 10 percent.

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Likewise, the remaining businesses scored less than 15 percent. Eight companies improved their score in this yearโ€™s edition of the index.

โ€œThreats to freedom donโ€™t just come from the government, but from major corporations like financial institutions and big tech companies that have concentrated power over essential services and communication channels,โ€ said ADF Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President for Corporate Engagement Jeremy Tedesco.

โ€œToo often, these corporations de-bank or de-platform Americans, citing policies that give them unbounded discretion to censor people for their views.

โ€œThat needs to change. Companies need to take seriously the way their policies and practices can chill the exercise of speech and religion and deter individuals from participating in the democratic process.โ€

ADF points out that some companies did not participate in the survey part of the index.

The lack of participation is in stark contrast to companies celebrating โ€œtransparencyโ€ when it comes to issues like diversity, gender identity, and climate change.

A key factor in the poor performance of certain firms on the Viewpoint Diversity index is that the businesses implement policies that contain vague terms like โ€œintoleranceโ€ and โ€œhate,โ€ which they use to censor content or deny service.

JPMorgan, whose score fell to 9 percent from last yearโ€™s 15, has cited such policies while canceling accounts or denying payments to individuals and organizations that hold โ€œmainstream American values.โ€

For instance, Chase de-banked the nonprofit National Committee for Religious Freedom without giving any clarifications.

On May 2, state attorneys general from 19 states sent a letter to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, asking that the corporation โ€œstop its religious and politically biased discrimination and start living up to its commitment to an inclusive society where everyone feels welcomed, equal, and included.โ€

Like ADF, other organizations are also taking steps to expose woke corporations that compromise American values.

Nonprofit Consumersโ€™ Research has launched an initiative called โ€œWoke Alertโ€ that monitors and notifies people about progressive and โ€œdangerous ideasโ€ pushed forward by corporations.

People can sign up for Woke Alert notifications through the Consumersโ€™ Research website.

Members will begin receiving alerts from the nonprofit about any company that pushes a leftist woke agenda as well as reasons driving such actions.

โ€œMany corporations are putting progressive activists and their dangerous agendas ahead of customers. Theyโ€™ll only succeed if we look the other way,โ€ according to the initiative.

Meanwhile, consumers are increasingly getting frustrated at companies pushing the woke agenda and are increasingly lashing out against such brands.

The most recent famous example is that of Anheuser-Busch.

The sale of Bud Light cases made by the corporation fell by 10.7 percent in the week ending April 8, and by 21 percent in the week ending April 15, after the brand partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaneyโ€”a move many brand loyalists considered a push against their values.

Recently, many female customers have reportedly begun boycotting womenโ€™s clothing brand Anthropologie after the firm cast a male model dressed up in female clothes in an advertisement.

In the Viewpoint Diversity Indexโ€™s FAQ section, a question was asked whether private companies ought to be bound by the First Amendment.

โ€œNo. Private companies are not legally obligated to follow the Constitution,โ€ replied the company.

โ€œNevertheless, First Amendment case law is the worldโ€™s richest repository of practical wisdom on how to create a culture committed to truly open discourseโ€”where diverse citizens of many different faiths, philosophies, and persuasions can speak their minds and honor their deepest convictions without fear of punishment and retaliation.โ€

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