Parent company of Emerald City Comic Con is a collaborator with ICE

REEDPOP / RELX are an overall extremely unethical company accused of price gouging for scientific journals, mercury spills in Canada, and harmful fossil fuel investments. However, as late as 2019 they have been contracted with ICE to provide them the use of LexisNexis, a data aggregating library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis

https://web.archive.org/web/20260112031810/https://theintercept.com/2019/11/14/ice-lexisnexis-thomson-reuters-database/

I’m posting this so ECCC attendees can be informed about where their money is going, and also so that people hopefully post fewer “why are these annoying protestors outside the convention center” complaints this year.