A prominent fundraising site cut ties with a convoy of Canadian truckers that had descended on their nation’s capital to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and regulations.
GoFundMe blocked the release of almost $10 million in donations to the “Freedom Convoy,” Friday in connection with “the promotion of violence and harassment” in Ottawa.
“We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity,” the website wrote in a statement.
Donors had two weeks to ask for a refund, and the rest of the money the group raised would be allocated to “credible and established charities” chosen by Freedom Convoy organizers, the site said.
– Read more at the NY Post
Elon Musk slams GoFundMe for bowing to Trudeau and CANCELING Freedom Truckers – while allowing BLM donations: Site refuses to return $9M and will instead distribute it to charities it deems fit as Canadian PM is branded a ‘dictator’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused GoFundMe of hypocrisy after the company canceled the Freedom Convoy fundraiser on Friday after it actively supported a campaign for the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest in Seattle.
The crowdfunding platform claimed the convoy fundraiser – which raised $10million Canadian dollars ($8 million USD) in support of truckers protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates – violated its terms of service ‘which prohibits the promotion of violence and harassment.’
GoFundMe plans to distribute the remaining $9million of donated funds to ‘credible and established charities’ that were reportedly chosen by the convoy organizers and have been verified by the platform.
Elon Musk slams GoFundMe for canceling Freedom Truckers while allowing BLM donations https://t.co/xA66FzWDjY pic.twitter.com/ZvtzqU5q9Z
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) February 5, 2022
It’s not my money pic.twitter.com/IKRxhGo8wS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2022
Funds designated to the truckers is being taken by “Go Fund Me” and redistributed to charities of Go Fund Me’s choice? So in other words, Go Fund Me is “stealing” money that does not belong to them and distributing it to communists like blm. This is criminal and a felony. The clowns at Go Fund Me should be sent to prison, but unfortunately we have a corrupt FBI and a Department of No Justice.
THEY need to get sued for FRAUD and theft… GRAND larceny a the least.
That is not was reported in the article, the paragraph reads; “Donors had two weeks to ask for a refund, and the rest of the money the group raised would be allocated to “credible and established charities” chosen by Freedom Convoy organizers, the site said.” Not chosen by Go Fund Me.
Since most news outlets other than fox, have not RUN That story though, how would those donors know to ask for a refund? DID goBuckme, send out an email to everyone?
Latest News 02/06/2022: GoFMe has “bowed” to the will of the people, and says they will be automatically be refunding all donation directly to contributors (Oh! So you can do that, you just usually don’t want to because if you give contributors two weeks to ask for a refund they might not know about it until it’s too late, then you get to keep the left overs! Sweet for you, eh?) Refunds can be expected in the next “seven to ten days.”
Hmph, we’ll see, because we’ll be watching. And it shouldn’t stop an intense investigation into their business practices, nor stop a complete and thorough audit of their books. Some one needs to take responsibility for this, and suffer the consequences for such deceitful and truly deplorable actions and practices.
The refunds debacle is actually only the secondary problem with what they are trying to get away with. The fact that they felt that they had any right to freeze, then seize the funds donated to a cause because of any reason other than overt treason, let alone because of some uncredited allegations by questionable sources, only tells us that this organization has taken a hard left and is stuck going around and around to nowhere, like where the Dim Dem Party is trying their very best to take Us!
This all stinks like a stale moose t u r d pie.
That to me is the worst part.. THEY ARE effectively saying “YOUR donations are OURS, because WE don’t like who you are donating to, JUST BECAUSE of some reports of violence…”
EVEN THOUGH THEY ACTIVELY solicited donations to help out CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle last year, WHICH DID HAVE rapes, shootings and the like in….
The Truck drivers of have the support of the American Middle Class in their determanation whether they receive the Covin shots as the Biden presidency demands of everyone These Truck Driver Convoys are representing Americans who want to be Free to choose as Americans .
As per today’s news, there is NOW going to be a Truck protest here in the US!
Forget government organizations like FBI & the like. Truckers are fully capable of retaliation – see Ottawa. Thank GOD for Truckers….
That’s why i say THEIR BETTER METHOD TO force change is just to tell the city of Ottowa, WE WON’T DELIVER ANY GOODS (INCLUDING GASOLINE) TO YOUR CITY, TILL these mandates are revoked!
Starve them out.
Do I hear “lawsuit”?
Pretty sad state of affairs when even raising and donating money to a legal, worthy cause has to fit the lib-tard, dem-rat agenda, or it gets banned.
That is why i donate to the charity itself, NOT TO A THIRD PARTY SITE before it goes to that charity…
Sounds like this would be an excellent class action lawsuit to put GO Fund Me out of business. I always thought they were a good thing till now. People that donated want that money to go to the truckers only NOT be stolen by GO Fund Me and distributed to BLM, or any other Marxist charities. Shameful, very shameful.
Don’t use “Go F Me.” Use “Give Send Go.” They are supporting the truckers. Hopefully U.S. truckers will do same here. It’s time to use same tactics that the left has used.
YEa, shank their businesses OVER!
I wonder if the donors got a free tube of KY jelly with their hijacked donations.