Also, competition is a hardy weed, not a delicate flower.
I was shocked last week to learn that GoFundMe, which I have used a lot in the last 3 years, withheld money that had been contributed to the Canadian truckers who are protesting vaccine mandates.
It was only after extreme pressure that GoFundMe relented and agreed to return contributions to those who had contributed. Elon Musk’s comment helped.
But it was only within days that another organization came along and said that people who contributed to the truckers through its site would actually have their money reach them. That organization is GiveSendGo.
Interestingly, there’s another competitor that Facebook advertised: Facebook. When I went on Facebook to tell friends that I would no longer used GoFundMe, an immediate message from Facebook came up. It said:
When you need to raise money for something or someone important to you, your friends can help. Create a fundraiser on Facebook in a few quick steps.
I follow the NBA; well, actually, I follow the Golden State Warriors. One of the lines I have seen NBA commenters use is “Scoring cures a lot of ills.”
Postscript: There has been a lot of misinformation about the truckers’ protest. As this interview with one of the leaders of the protest makes clear, it is NOT about opposition to vaccines. It’s about opposition to vaccine mandates.
READER COMMENTS
Alan Goldhammer
Feb 7 2022 at 1:29pm
Without vaccine mandates whooping cough would still be prevalent (revisit what happened in the UK circa 1980 when they stopped vaccinating because of the side effects from the then used vaccine), polio a continuing scourge and small pox still killing people. Ignore public health at your peril.
Jon Murphy
Feb 7 2022 at 1:37pm
Again, it’s about vaccine mandates not about vaccines.
Whether or not vaccine mandates are good policy for this virus is what is being asked. Generally speaking, vaccines against whooping cough, smallpox, and polio are irrelevant to this conversation (for reasons I am sure I do not need to discuss given your medical background)
David Henderson
Feb 7 2022 at 9:35pm
You’re off topic.
Mark Barbieri
Feb 7 2022 at 7:04pm
First saw this posted by a radical right-winger and dismissed it. I was shocked when I found out it was true. Someone at GFM must have been brain dead to not immediately do full refunds. How could anyone not realize that redirecting donations to charities that the donors didn’t choose would not go over well?
I like the policy of not funding violent organizations. I think it would be crazy from an ethical and legal standpoint to do otherwise. But someone needs to do a better job of screening. I’m scratching my head trying to figure out how the Canadian truckers as considered violent but BLM is not. Both groups seem generally non-violent but large enough not to be able to avoid troublemakers getting involved. Am I missing something?
Andre
Feb 7 2022 at 7:31pm
GFM refunded my donation. I’m not sure why you think they redirected donations.
Andre
Feb 7 2022 at 7:33pm
Ah, it’s in the link, not David’s post. My mistake.
David Henderson
Feb 7 2022 at 9:35pm
They planned to redirect donations until they faced a lot of bad publicity.
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