GoFundMe has announced that it is seizing the $10 million Canadian dollars of funds raised on its website for the Canadian Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates and Government overreach and will distribute it to “credible and established charities” reportedly chosen by the convoy organisers and approved by GoFundMe. Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused GoFundMe of hypocrisy as it actively supported a campaign for the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest in Seattle – among numerous other violent woke causes – implying that what makes the difference is not the nature of the protest but whether the company agrees with the cause or comes under political pressure. The Daily Mail the story.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused GoFundMe of hypocrisy after the company cancelled 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 $9 million [the reason for the discrepancy in amounts is unclear] of donated funds to “credible and established charities” that were reportedly chosen by the convoy organisers and have been verified by the platform.
“Double-standard?” Musk questioned on Twitter Friday night, sharing a screenshot of a tweet the crowdfunding platform published in 2020, amid active riots in Seattle.
The Seattle protesters declared an autonomous zone in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The zone, spanning six city blocks and displaying Black Lives Matter imagery, was established by George Floyd protesters in June 2020 after a tension-filled interactions between demonstrators and police.
GoFundMe also allowed numerous BLM-related fundraisers, some of which still remain active, that strived to raise funds for protective gear and medical supplies for protesters in the Pacific Northwest.
The crowdfunding platform, released a statement Friday evening saying: “GoFundMe supports peaceful protests and we believe that was the intention of the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser when it was first created.”
“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 decision to remove the fundraise comes one day after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a military response to the protests that have shut down the nation’s capital was “not in the cards right now” and the House of Commons Public Safety and National Security Committee called on GoFundMe to detail how it would ensure donations weren’t being used to promote extremism and hate.
It remains unclear if Trudeau or his Government lobbied the crowdsourcing company, which did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
In the wake of GoFundMe’s decision, Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich announced Friday night that they have teamed up with GiveSendGo, another online platform, to continue raising funds for the truckers.
“GiveSendGo is going to to enable us to get donations into the hands of truckers much, much quicker,” she said in a video published by Rumble.
“If you can donate and help us keep these truckers going – we plan to be here for the long haul, as long as it takes to ensure that your rights and freedoms are restored.”
GoFundMe suspended the Freedom Convoy fundraiser for internal review on Wednesday after it had accrued more than $10million in donations.
The company had previously released $1 million to organisers after they “provided a clear distribution plan… and confirmed funds would be used only for participants who traveled to Ottawa to participate in a peaceful protest.”
The organisers claimed the funds would be used for expenses such as fuel, food and lodging, with any leftover donations being gifted to a “credible Veterans organisation which will be chosen by the donors.”
GoFundMe announced Friday they will no longer be releasing funds to the organizers because of “how this situation has evolved”.
“No further funds will be directly distributed to the Freedom Convoy organizers,” the company statement read. “We will work with organizers to send all remaining funds to credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 2022 organisers and verified by GoFundMe.”
The company said donors have until February 19th to request a refund.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Following the outcry, GoFundMe has said it will automatically refund all the money to donors without the need to submit a request. Nevertheless, it’s probably worth avoiding GoFundMe from now on if your politics are to the Right of BLM.
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Good that DS let this article stand, even though GFM is pretending to backpedal. I see that Governor De Santis had something to say about it.
If GoFundMe has a physical HQ in Canada I’d suggest the truckers head for it and drive their rigs right through any such building.
I would add that I would advocate ensuring that the building was empty of people.
Without a medical qualification between them the tech billionaires of Google, Youtube, Facebook & Twitter have been cancelling, censoring & banning highly qualified medical personell during the past 2 years who have not followed their agenda. GoFundMe is the latest tech company that thinks it can ride roughshod over the public. Zuckerberg is now seeing by following in the footsteps of the Reichmaster for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels is not profitable going by the sudden drop in Facebook’s share price this week
Anyone who is as outraged by this as I am can donate to the Freedom Convoy at GiveSendGo here: https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022.
I believe go fund me had to refund all contributors now and another site is being used for donations.
I’ve always been suspicious of crowdfunding websites and rarely use them. The actions of GoFundMe will, I suspect, make many more reluctant to give through these platforms. The consequence will be that fewer people will use them and good causes will suffer as a result.I propose a Defund GoFundMe movement.
Well, anyone who wants to be funded via GoFundMe will get nothing from me.
Theft that should be dealt with as such and very long jail terms handed out.
I donated a modest amount to the Freedom Convoy via GoFleeceMe, err…. GoFundMe. Today I received an email saying they’ll refund the amount to me in a few days. I replied to them thus:
I am sure that left them shaken and crushed. 😉 I will, of course, donate to the Freedom Convoy, either through another platform or directly.
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This is exactly what digital money is all about. Not convenience but control.
No wonder they hate coins and banknotes, which you can physically hand over and they can’t confiscate.
https://cacuk.uk/how-to-respond-human-rights-act-reform-consultation/
Very good advice on how to respond top the Human Rights Reform Bill
It’s an Agenda-driven piece, which says it wants to “balance” our individual rights with the “rights of society”…
That proposition is a FALLACY.
There is no society without individuals, therefore the “rights of society” DEPEND on the rights of each individual being upheld. They cannot, and must never, compete with individual rights.The ‘Reform’ proposal also seems to want to put more power into the hands of legislators, and give less discretion to our judges, who are supposed to be there to CHECK and BALANCE the legislative powers!
Please have a go at responding to the consultation… make a start NOW (you can save your answers to continue later, up until 8th March). I know some people are struggling, but there’s no reason why EVERYONE can’t participate, to the best of their ability.
Will never use the platform again.
Sick to the back teeth of the Covidian claptrap.
I’ll point out to anyone I wish to support that I’ll make a cash donation or send a cheque but these virtue signalling prices are off limits.
Should have read pricks not prices.
UPDATE: They are not thieving bar stewards at GoFu**me, they are refunding all the donations in full. This is not wire fraud nor is it honest services fraud. Anything but allow themselves to be of use to decent people defending liberty.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/this-medical-data-from-the-us-dod
This medical data from the US DoD is explosive. Mainstream media has been ordered to ignore it.The DMED data exposed by attorney Tom Renz and Senator Johnson is a smoking gun. General Austin should order all military docs to speak the truth. But he isn’t. Why not?
GoFundMe essentially claims that the Convoy fundraiser is guilty of
“the promotion of violence and harassment”. How on earth?!? GoFU, you are the ones in breach of your own BS. Hypocritical bullies.
“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.”
Occupation, really? Grow up.
Police reports of ‘violence and other unlawful activity’. What violence, what level of violence, what circumstances and by whom? Ditto the ‘unlawful’ activity.
These people (the hypocritical) make me want to be thoroughly sick. These are the real abusers, and it is the hypocrisy and the ‘pure as the driven snow’ bollocks that I really, really detest.
BLM looting, killing, arson, intimidation … all ‘largely peaceful’. FFS!!!
Just GoFU. And while you are there, try to raise some decency for yourselves. Try to honour and abide by your own gospels, instead of – as many do – just using them as purely window-dressing slogans.
You, and your kind disgust me.
“Police reports of ‘violence and other unlawful activity’. What violence, what level of violence, what circumstances and by whom? Ditto the ‘unlawful’ activity.”
All these questions. Don’t you understand that expecting the authorities to answer such questions is tantamount to disloyalty, trying to get them to reveal their sources and methods. Are you in the pay of Vladimir Putin perhaps?
other unlawful activity presumably means people urinating in parks.
The interesting bit here is that these people have now shown their true, naked colours for the first time: With 10 million dollars, the temptation was just too great. So, tried to snatch it away and distribute it to their buddies. Credible charities is nothing but code language for NGOs broadly in favour of, if not directly involved in, global Corona politics. Presumably, Masks4All is a credible charity. And similar entities.
Letter by Senator Ron Johnson following up Renz’s testimony.
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/FB6DDD42-4755-4FDC-BEE9-50E402911E02
The Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III Secretary Department of Defense
Based on data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), Renz reported that these whistleblowers found a significant increase in registered diagnoses on DMED for miscarriages, cancer, and many other medical conditions in 2021 compared to a five-year average from 2016-2020.
For example, at the roundtable Renz stated that registered diagnoses for neurological issues increased 10 times from a five-year average of 82,000 to 863,000 in 2021.
There were also increases in registered diagnoses in 2021 for the following medical conditions:
Hypertension – 2,181% increase
Diseases of the nervous system – 1,048% increase
Malignant neoplasms of esophagus – 894% increase
Multiple sclerosis – 680% increase
Malignant neoplasms of digestive organs – 624% increase
Guillain-Barre syndrome – 551% increase
Breast cancer – 487% increase Demyelinating – 487% increase
Malignant neoplasms of thyroid and other endocrine glands – 474% increase
Female infertility – 472% increase
Pulmonary embolism – 468% increase
Migraines – 452% increase
Ovarian dysfunction – 437% increase
Testicular cancer – 369% increase Tachycardia – 302%… Read more »
I was going to post it – thanks for saving me the trouble.
This is really shocking information, I heard the clip and was shocked but to see it in print…. Silly question: why haven’t they pulled this stuff?
Dis-respect to the US Senate? There was a fuss in 2020 when Youtube removed Dr Pierre Kory’s evidence to a Senate C’tee. It reinstated it later.
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/john-o-looney-funeral-home-whistleblower-most-deaths-are-vaccine-deaths/
Latest interview with John O’Looney, mentioning his stay in hospital. Outspoken and honest as usual.
It’s good. But I feel that his colleagues in the industry are cowards for not even giving off the record briefings to confirm that they see similar things going on. Or they could agree to a short interview with GB News, with their voice either disguised or spoken by an actor. Then they wouldn’t lose their jobs or lose business.
After all, lots of doctors have now spoken out *on* the record, like he has. Undertakers? Not really.
It’s interesting that he thinks he may not have had COVID, but something else. ‘Real flu’? It’s probably more serious than COVID for a man of 50.
He is impressive, but it is because he directly sees the human damage in his industry. (Mentions in this interview he used to be a bouncer!)
Says that during his hospital stay that staff quietly supported his stance.
Consultant wanted to put him on remdesivir. A representative of Oxford university wanted to put him on baracitnib and Tocilizumab, which he refused.
O’Looney says in the interview below that a hospital mortuary assistant told him there has been a 600% increase in thrombosis deaths in the last year
Reiner Fuellmich instigates a Grand Jury investigation of the Covid Plandemic – live now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELTFNkCdzjA
In a further demonstration of fascistic corporate manipulation Trustpilot has now suspended their GoFundMe review page, as irate donors to the truckers cause had the gall to post their views and one star reviews on Trustpilot’s site. Not a good day for these clueless psychopaths.
This is what Trustpilot are saying if you try to access GoFundMe page:
I wonder, is there a site to leave a review of Trustpilot? Increasingly, I don’t trust them
You could look up the CEO’s e-mail address, easy to find nowadays. If you a) really feel angry, and b) use Twitter, you could put out a tweet with the e-mail address, so that other people can also send him/her a suitable e-mail.
Companies don’t care that much what people say, unless it starts affecting their reputations. But they are terrified of reputational damage. They’ll do anything to avoid that.
The comments are priceless. No wonder they stopped further reviews.
Scam Exposed: You Cannot Trust Trustpilot!
Trustpilot is supposed to be a service you can trust. It is supposed to be the one that tells the truth about online services and their reviews, however, we put it to the test and can see nothing but a flawed system verging on corruption.Trustpilot is just another company built to make money and deliver a product that is completely pointless whilst damaging companies on the way!
https://spainsnews.com/scam-exposed-you-cannot-trust-trustpilot/
What a surprise! (In case you don’t know any “rating” site makes money from selling good ratings to the rated.)
Here’s another link to moans about GoFundMe:
https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/gofundme
Isn’t one of the rules of success in a war is the cutting off the financing to your opposition? Well, its turning ugly to say the least.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/givesendgo-sees-massive-surge-traffic-one-million-donations-canadian-truckers-12-hours-relentless-ddos-bot-attacks-ceo-givesendgo-sends-exclusive-statement-gateway-pundit/
The truckers are brilliant, go fund me is a disgrace. Watching this anti mandate movement spread round the world is simply wonderful – I feel like the cavalry is coming over the hill.
Meanwhile, in an English village, a lone angry woman amuses herself by removing covid instructions stuck up in public places. There are no council exhortations left on the rec. any more, they are all in the bin where they belong. Soon the village will be totally devoid of covid rule displays. Just my small contribution to the fight.
Good for you! Have a star.
Thank you!
There is a great, silent army of covvie notice removers at work, all over this land. Keep up the good work!
PS. If you want to get rid of them, put them in the bag with the dog poo. That’s what I do.
Well done. I’m wondering why our council haven’t removed their red Maintain Social Distancing (or whatever the cretinous fearporn WEF nonsense says) signs now it’s an endemic cold.
That’s a blatant attempt at theft as this money isn’t owned by GoFundMe and the company was never authorized to control its distribution. When refunding the donors, it becomes interest fraud.
Politics to the right of BLM is also clearly not an appropriate label. When you don’t desire to support gangsters keen on suppressing civil liberties to enable private profiteering would be more fitting. That’s neither left nor right.
Maybe Mr Musk could find a few million down the back of his settee to send.
GoFundMe have an office in Dublin, Ireland. It’s probably just a shoe-box office with an answering machine, and being used as a basis to temporarily move profits into and out of Ireland to avail of their very low corporation tax. Many big corporations have such tax avoidance offices like this in Ireland.
But it’s Saturday evening, so perhaps a few Irish fellas with their tanks topped up with Guinness might call round to GoFundMe’s office in Dublin, just to see if anyone is home?
https://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Company/Gofundme-Ireland-Limited-581748
https://www.businessworld.ie/technology-news/GoFundMe-announces-new-job-openings-at-its-Dublin-office-573744.html
Ugh, more Musk worshipping.
The guy backing the truckers…while building driverless truck systems to replace them, what a guy!
They are actually finding it very hard to create the artificial intelligence that is needed for the successful running of driverless vehicles.
At first, they thought they would be able to easily replicate the human brain. But they are finding that they can’t. Some experts claim that they will never be able to create the AI needed to run driverless vehicles.
But where we have to be very careful is that they may take another route to create the AI needed to drive vehicles. It’s a possibility that they might use transhumanism as a substitute for their failure to create slave vehicles.
They may have already done a field trial during the plandemic by using the coerced “vaccines” to test the installation of nanotechnology in humans. Perhaps a technology that someday will be able to computerise humans, basically making cyborgs out of them.
Then they’d have the perfect obedient slave class. A quasi human you could program to drive your car, do odd jobs around your home and then be locked in a cupboard overnight.
When rational and the resident trolls on here read this, they’ll probably drool from their woke mouths at the prospect… Read more »
Natural intelligence is scarce enough. Look at the zombie hordes.
The country is gone to hell. Some time ago in a major London hospital I had a disgusting little camp male receptionist (about 18 years old) openly flirt with me. I kid you not, if I had been willing, I believe this filthy little twerp would have got into the nearest broom closet with me.
I’m very far from being an Adonis, so I suspect this camp cretin’s only criteria for prospective lovers are that they be male and have rectums. Therefore, he probably flirted with all males that went near his reception desk. All hospital receptions are saturated with CCTV, so, surely management knew what this filthy idiot was up to. But in this woke era, it’s alright for him to act like this.
Check out Mr Grindr? This vile creature had no problem attracting young males!!!!!!
You might have seen this already – Dr Charles Morgan on Psycho-Neurology.
Bio-hacking. The medical benefits are used to ‘sell’ the tech of course, but the nefarious uses are immediate and obvious. Literally hijacking another person’s mind by transmitting thought waves into their brain using graphene nano-particles and high density data transmission like 5G.
I’ve just downloaded it. Thank you.
He also touches on the ‘hive mind’ concept of having many brains accessed simultaneously to solve complex problems – precisely why Musk is also invested in Neuralink. He wants to use human brains to create an ‘A.I singularity’, and his Starlink satellites will provide the necessary bandwidth and global coverage.
He’s a psychopath.
It feels likely that it’ll get built eventually regardless, he’s giving factory workers a job, coders, etc. Rather him than Zucker I suppose.
Look into the history of how McDonalds replaced skilled cooks/chefs with easily replaceable production line workers to see that battle was lost a while back. Those guys will go the way of the supermarket check-out worker soon too.
I don’t see the genie going back into the bottle on automation.
The only real thing to decide eventually is who will have to fix the machines while everyone else has no work to do, and how those people’s existence will be supplemented. Or I suppose if it will be easier just to cull us, but that’s a question for the WEF.
…That, or who will face the machines and save humanity 🙂
Should be called “go fund woke approved causes only ” snappy hey .
What total shameless bias .
These hosting providers should be neutral but they never will as the Lefts long march has really infiltrated everything .Thats the real horror show here.