Soros’ Open Society should be applauded

I find it remarkable that a wealthy philanthropist like George Soros receives such criticism over the broad-spectrum humanitarian organisation he founded. Media organisations Soros’s Open Society has funded are examples of old-school journalistic tradition – the BBC, Associated Press, etc – that need help in the face of Internet craziness.
Let’s talk about the real offenders against freedom of the press. I am an American and thus I can speak up when my country is wrong. Since 2001, there has been 30 billion in US tax dollars spent on Aids relief (PEPFAR), but many millions of that went to attack prostitution even where it is legal. That money went to NGOs, as well as academic researchers added in 2005, and those people had to take “the pledge” to oppose and aggressively attack all prostitution or else lose their funding. That pledge was finally ruled unconstitutional just a few months ago after 15 years. The entire issue of sex trafficking and sex work has been exaggerated and influenced by this overriding control of NGO funding.
Organisations like Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and, yes, the Open Society Foundation are examples of a very few organisations with both courage and gravitas to stand in the face of far bigger affronts to inappropriate influences on press freedom. If you are curious to learn more just Google “PEPFAR” and “PEPFAR pledge”.
John Kane