FOX NEWS: Winsome Sears touts Youngkin for firing Eventbrite after it blocked Riley Gaines: 'Wholeheartedly agree'
OUTKICK: VIRGINIA GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN FIRES EVENTBRITE AFTER IT BANNED RILEY GAINES, PROMOTED PRO-HAMAS EVENTS
Glenn Youngkin is done with Eventbrite.
The event management and ticketing website revealed its political extremism last week, prohibiting Riley Gaines from promoting a college speaking event about protecting women’s sports. The company claimed her event violated its terms of service. Meanwhile, the platform had no problem allowing listings that took a blatantly pro-Hamas stance.
NATIONAL REVIEW: Youngkin Boycotts Eventbrite over Removal of Riley Gaines Event
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin announced Monday that he is boycotting Eventbrite after the live-events company removed former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines’s event on protecting women’s sports from its platform while allowing events celebrating Hamas terrorism to remain.
WASHINGTON TIMES: ‘We’ve fired them’: Youngkin dumps Eventbrite over Riley Gaines cancellation
Add Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to the list of those ditching Eventbrite over its decision to de-list women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines while allowing posts for anti-Israel events.
The Republican governor said Monday that “when companies that take these kinds of stances, the customers can fire them. And in our case, we’ve fired them.”
“As governor, I have told our political committee that we will no longer use Eventbrite. The governor’s office is no longer using Eventbrite,” Mr. Youngkin said on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton radio show.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Youngkin tells his PAC and office not to use Eventbrite over its censorship
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) directed his political committee and office not to use Eventbrite, an online platform in which users host and schedule events, in the wake of the platform's alleged censorship.
Eventbrite came under harsh criticism from conservatives after it removed an event scheduled by Riley Gaines, an activist advocating the protection of women's sports from transgender women. While the online event platform censored Gaines, it has not taken action to remove events in support of the Hamas terrorist group.
RED STATE: Glenn Youngkin Responds Accordingly to Eventbrite’s Riley Gaines Discrimination as Co-Founder Melts Down
After a University of California, Davis event Save Women's Sports spokeswoman Riley Gaines was scheduled to speak at in November was pulled from Eventbrite's website on grounds it violated their woke community guidelines and terms of service, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is speaking out - and taking action.
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In the aftermath of Gaines' call to give Eventbrite the "Bud Light treatment," Youngkin has directed his team to pull all Youngkin events from the website on grounds that it was insane that they would toss a Riley Gaines gathering from their platform but keep up the ones that promoted support for Hamas in the aftermath the start of their terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
