Posted on 02/03/2022 10:52:11 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
GoFundMe has frozen the campaign of the Canadian trucker convoy after it raised over $10 million Canadian dollars following demands from Ottawa city officials for funding to be ‘cut off’ to the protesters.
As reported by the Daily Mail, the page for the convoy now states “This fundraiser is currently paused and under review to ensure it complies with our terms of service and applicable laws and regulations.”
“Our team is working 24/7 and doing all we can to protect both organizers and donors. Thank you for your patience,” the page also reads at time of writing.
As Fox News notes, despite being labelled a “fringe movement” by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the campaign for the truckers raised more money in the past fortnight than the amount raised by Canada’s major political parties in the whole of the last quarter.
GoFundMe told directed reporters to a blog post explaining its position.
The post states “Recent events in Ottawa, Canada, have generated widespread discussion about the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser on GoFundMe. We wanted to provide clarity around the actions that our global Trust & Safety and Customer Care teams take every day, just as they have with the Freedom Convoy fundraiser.”
It adds “As the activity surrounding the protest evolves, we have been monitoring the fundraiser to ensure the funds are going to the intended recipients and that the fundraiser remains within our Terms of Service. Our monitoring includes maintaining close communication with the organizer as well as collaborating with local law enforcement.”
“This process takes time and may slow down the withdrawal process. If the fundraiser does violate our Terms of Service or does not directly benefit the intended beneficiary, we will remove it from the platform,” the post concludes.
This brings up a very important point. There needs to be [or maybe already is and I am ignorant of it] of a web site which lists all the WOKE businesses, organizations, so FREEDOM minded and those who HATE CENSORSHIP in any form, can spend their money where it won’t be used against them.
and many of these truckers are Christian so they definitely should have used givesendgo. As long as they’re not strictly US.
It looks like GoFundMe is corrupt and untrustworthy. It should be disbanded.
Its position should be to distribute the funds to their intended purpose. It is the dead of winter with attendant urgency.
Sitting on $10 million explaining why it is holding the money is unconscionable, a betrayal to the donors, and corrupt.
GoGibsMuhDat has always been “woke”. Depending on them for funding for anything not leftist is risky and foolish.
Does that just freeze the activity or does it also impound money that has been received but not dispersed? Can Gofundme impound actual donations?
Sorry but I don’t keep up with the latest crap on the internet and obviously the TENS of THOUSANDS of Canadian Trucker don’t either Mr Know it all:-)
These scumbags need to be sued for big bucks in a class action suit that would bankrupt them.
I went to donate to a GFM account before I knew they were woke, and they wanted to charge a 15% “handling” fee. I declined.
Seems like a more appropriate name.
anyone who is not a leftist grifter should know to avoid ‘gofundme’ like plague.
OTOH, if you’re a leftist grifter, it’s quite literally Money for Nothing.
But they didn’t have a problem allowing the family of the guy who blew up his neighborhood here in SoCal with his illegal fireworks cache, and I complained, and there were people in the comments protesting they didn’t know he was involved in illegal activity and wanted their money back.
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