Posted on 11/20/2021 9:18:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
GoFundMe will allow fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse now that he’s been acquitted, the company said Friday.
The fundraising platform said it banned Rittenhouse fundraisers before because its terms of service “prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime.” That was the same thing a GoFundMe spokesperson told The Epoch Times last year.
In addition to removing fundraisers that were launched for the teenager’s legal defense, the company removed “hundreds of others” last year that were unrelated to him, it said in a blog post that sought to respond to heightened criticism in the wake of the acquittal.
“If someone is acquitted of those charges, as Rittenhouse was today, a fundraiser started subsequently for their legal defense and other expenses would not violate this policy. A fundraiser to pay lawyers, cover legal expenses, or to help with ongoing living expenses for a person acquitted of those charges could remain active as long as we determine it is not in violation of any of our other terms and, for example, the purpose is clearly stated and the correct beneficiary is added to the fundraiser,” GoFundMe said.
The platform has been accused of taking sides because it has allowed numerous other fundraisers for people accused of violent crimes to remain on the platform.
For instance, a fundraiser remains up on GoFundMe for Marc Wilson, a Georgia man accused of gunning down a teenager last year. Another one was set up for Zachary Alexander Karas, who was charged by the Department of Justice for possessing Molotov cocktails.
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Oh Kyle is going to raise some funds all right, and GoFundMe isn’t going to like his business model.
Somebody does not want to get sued.
Until Merrick Himmler’s goons at the Department of Jesters invent some federal “charges”...
https://support.freekyleusa.com
I'll send him another donation when I hear he's suing GoFundMe.
Gee, that’s mighty white of them.
The mugwumps were pumped and ended up thumped.
CYA? Lawsuit insurance?
They were fully on board with the guy who blew up his neighborhood with a garage full of illegal fireworks here in SoCal. I complained at the time, and sent them news reports, showing that the recipient was involved in illegal activity. And several people who had donated were complaining they wanted their money back because they didn’t realize he was involved in illegal activity, but at least he wasn’t a kid defending himself from a bunch of criminals.
Read later.
After you’re dead, you’re allowed to get a fishing license...
Go Fund Me has no problem funding BLM or Antifaschisitsche Aktion.
Give me a break. They have made it clear they will gladly side with the enemy. America has got to wake up.
Spent time in the 80’s visiting family in a Communist country. One of my relative was about 15 years older than I was, vice president of a bank, his wife a teacher, had a smaller apartment than I did as a student! His parents had the phone and bathroom down the hall.
He told me when we went for a walk downtown...”The police are everywhere and they listen” “Be careful what you say”
Does America want to go there?
Went to Germany during that time. Family there told me being held captive in an American POW camp during WWII was way better than being in the German army. They woke up to the lies being told.
Will we?
We must work to destroy woke companies.
“Does America want to go there?”
America has been “there” for at last a decade.
Set up by Wendy Rittenhouse after she got rid of the two lawyer leaches, Lin Wood and John Pierce.
GFM is dead to me. No more money to be given through that communist POS site.
Go Fund Me can KMA.
I hope KYLE sues GO FUND ME, also.
AND to VOTE !!!!!
I think the ruling class has been there for the past 30 years but I’m still not sure the voters are really there yet.
Hope and pray the uninformed sheeple class is staring to wake up.
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