Give The Canadian Truckers Their Donations

For John, BLUF:  I hope this all works out well in the end, and the Truckers get their donations, but this has soured me on Go Fund Me.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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GoFundMe Shuts Down Canadian Freedom Convoy Account and Sends the Money Where It Decides

From The Red State Blog, by "streiff"♠, 4 February 2022, 7:57 PM ET.

Here is the lede plus three:

Over the past weeks, the GoFundMe account supporting the Canadian Freedom Convoy has raised over $9 million from small donors.  Today, at the request of the Trudeau dictatorship, that account was shut down.  To add injury to insult, GoFundMe has decided to repurpose the donations, sending them to a charity that has the approval of that corporation rather than returning them to the donors.  You have to submit an “application” to get your money back. Here is GoFundMe’s statement:

To ensure GoFundMe remains a trusted platform, we work with local authorities to ensure we have a detailed, factual understanding of events taking place on the ground.  Following a review of relevant facts and multiple discussions with local law enforcement and city officials, this fundraiser is now in violation of our Terms of Service (Term 8, which prohibits the promotion of violence and harassment) and has been removed from the platform.

The statement is utter bullsh** down to its core. GoFundMe is doing this because all of the big tech companies are acting as arms of progressive administrations to enforce their whims.  We see it on YouTube, Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, everywhere.  The Freedom Convoy is embarrassing Trudeau and shaking things up in Canadian politics.  That makes them a threat.  There is neither violence nor credible threats of violence associated with the Freedom Convoy, but we can’t have mere proles standing up to a fascist darling, can we?

So Go Fund Me is taking the contributions of many small contributors and redirecting those funds, without donor permission to where Go Fund Me wishes?

I find this contemtable.

i wonder if it is legal?

I do hope that word gets out and breaks their business model.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  "Former infantry officer, CGSC grad and Army Operations Center alumnus.  RedState member since 2004."