GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser
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>All donors may submit a request for a full refund until February 19th, 2022 using this dedicated refund form.
Even if we grant for the sake of argument that their decision not to disburse funds to the protests is justified, I don't understand why a legitimate business operating in good faith would not give the donators refunds as the default action. Requiring them to submit a form in order to possibly avoid re-appropriation of their money feels like theft from the donators.
We should probably not assume bad intent on their part!
If ever there was a use case for crypto and smart contracts a GoFundMe replacement would be it
Right, then the money would literally disappear due to a random coding bug.
If you want to send money directly to a person in an irrevocable way, do so.
If however you want to use an established intermediary platform with standardized and seamless fundraising and distribution and payment processing capability and its own terms of service... How would crypto change that? We can't just use the magic world to wave problems away... This is the type of statement that breeds deep skepticism and even cynicism of crypto currencies and eco system.
Did they similarly freeze fundraisers during the BLM riots?
When they fund domestic terrorists, it's fine.
[1] https://twitter.com/antifawatch2/status/1489778959835357189
So when it's all violence by the State it's all peachy and fine.
> law enforcement
Why do you even trust the claims of law enforcement? They are not a neutral party at all.
> promotion of violence
Erm, BLM riots were not THAT long ago, GoFundMe do you think we forgot things so fast?
I don't care who you are - what your politics are or anything else, if you associate with a group who has done the things these "peaceful protesters" have, you are completely in the wrong.
They are acting as a group. If anyone within the group had stopped the others, I would agree with you in principal, even if not fact. But they didn't, they stood by and watched or cheered. They enabled.
Literally throwing shit is not peaceful protest.
Urinating on a war memorial is not peaceful protest.
Blocking access for ambulances - potentially causing significant harm or death - is not peaceful protest.
Ottawa has peaceful protests all the time - this is not that.
Its definitely annoying, and ocassionally lasted multiple days, but it gets support and doesn't potentially cost lives.
I lived in Ottawa for a lot of years and there were countless protests - but they respected the need for society as a whole to keep functioning (read: emergency services) and worked with the local police to make sure they were in the right.
The Confederate/Nazi flag groups were splinter groups of less than 10 people who may have been agent provocateurs.
The protests were more peaceful than BLM with burning buildings. The PM supported BLM, which says how much he cares about peaceful protests.
If this is the state of affairs, any demonstration can be discredited and defunded by organized groups of less than 100 people. This is extremely dangerous for democracy.