GoFundMe seizes funds of Canadian trucker convoy

[GregTheGreat657]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60267840

[T'Chenka]

This "peaceful protest" (occupation) causes a lot of problems for the citizens and businesses of Ottawa. I want GoFundMe to be fair about this, but they violated the terms and conditions and now they lost their revenue stream. As a critic of the occupation, this is great news.

[THG]

This is not going to stop the protestors, in fact, they shall grow even more due to this.

Not that I mind that. It's a good thing to see the truckers fighting back against this nanny state drivel.

[T'Chenka]

Not that I mind that. It's a good thing to see the truckers fighting back against this nanny state drivel.

Canadian citizens / voters show overall support for the govermment on this when polled. We aren't libertarians up here.

[Calthrina950]

Not that I mind that. It's a good thing to see the truckers fighting back against this nanny state drivel.

Canadian citizens / voters show overall support for the govermment on this when polled. We aren't libertarians up here.

Canada has generally had more rigorous restrictions than the United States, if I'm not mistaken. And there has been less opposition to the restrictions than in the United States. The pandemic isn't as polarized along partisan lines.

[THG]

Not that I mind that. It's a good thing to see the truckers fighting back against this nanny state drivel.

Canadian citizens / voters show overall support for the govermment on this when polled. We aren't libertarians up here.

I didn't know that Canadians had opinions that were of any relevance to society.




kidding.....

[compucomp]

Good riddance to this rabble of neo-Nazis, Trumpist insurrectionists, and QAnon cultists.

[Calthrina950]

Good riddance to this rabble of neo-Nazis, Trumpist insurrectionists, and QAnon cultists.

How did Trumpists manage to cross the border into Canada? That country has been maintaining strict travel and immigration requirements throughout the pandemic.

[compucomp]

Good riddance to this rabble of neo-Nazis, Trumpist insurrectionists, and QAnon cultists.

How did Trumpists manage to cross the border into Canada? That country has been maintaining strict travel and immigration requirements throughout the pandemic.

Three Percenters are represented at this protest. I don't know if the Trumpists moved over or if this militia has a Canadian unit.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Good riddance to this rabble of neo-Nazis, Trumpist insurrectionists, and QAnon cultists.

There were neo-Confederates waving Confederate flags as well. Northern rural areas being Southernized is real, but they are mostly American MAGAs.

[T'Chenka]

Good riddance to this rabble of neo-Nazis, Trumpist insurrectionists, and QAnon cultists.

How did Trumpists manage to cross the border into Canada? That country has been maintaining strict travel and immigration requirements throughout the pandemic.

Compucomp's comment aside, there have been many reports and several photographs of many American vehicles in Ottawa.

[Benjamin Frank]

Not that I mind that. It's a good thing to see the truckers fighting back against this nanny state drivel.

Canadian citizens / voters show overall support for the govermment on this when polled. We aren't libertarians up here.

Americans aren't libertarians.  They're only libertarian when it comes to placing stricter rules/laws on themselves, when it comes to placing them on 'the others' they are some of the most authoritarian people around.  The U.S, for instance, has much stricter drug laws than Canada.

Americans are libertarian is one of these myths that Americans like to believe about themselves.

[BigSerg]

This "peaceful protest" (occupation) causes a lot of problems for the citizens and businesses of Ottawa. I want GoFundMe to be fair about this, but they violated the terms and conditions and now they lost their revenue stream. As a critic of the occupation, this is great news.

If you supported Black lives Matter, you have no right to complain about this. Literally cities were burned and looted for months.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Hopefully the truckers get what they want

[OSR stands with Israel]

Absolutely disgusting

[Bootes Void]

Not that I mind that. It's a good thing to see the truckers fighting back against this nanny state drivel.

Canadian citizens / voters show overall support for the govermment on this when polled. We aren't libertarians up here.

Canada has generally had more rigorous restrictions than the United States, if I'm not mistaken. And there has been less opposition to the restrictions than in the United States. The pandemic isn't as polarized along partisan lines.

Canadians being more supportive of restrictions was fairly supported early on but there is a growing backlash to it and it has become a big culture war issue over here over where it wasn’t a year or two ago. I generally see this with a lot more with the people I interact with complaining about the lockdowns, mask mandates(now N95 in some cases), testing mandates and even now vaccine mandates in general. I would say the divide on Covid restrictions is almost just as strong as it is in the U.S at this point

[T'Chenka]

This "peaceful protest" (occupation) causes a lot of problems for the citizens and businesses of Ottawa. I want GoFundMe to be fair about this, but they violated the terms and conditions and now they lost their revenue stream. As a critic of the occupation, this is great news.

If you supported Black lives Matter, you have no right to complain about this. Literally cities were burned and looted for months.

If you check my posting history, I was extremely pro-BLM peaceful protesting but very anti-rioting and anti-looting at the time.

[ElectionsGuy]

It's pretty clear and undeniable at this point that these platforms are in the pocket of the left. If you are against the political establishment, and for liberty, platforms and tech companies will deny your service and deplatform you to stop any threat to their power.

[ElectionsGuy]

This "peaceful protest" (occupation) causes a lot of problems for the citizens and businesses of Ottawa. I want GoFundMe to be fair about this, but they violated the terms and conditions and now they lost their revenue stream. As a critic of the occupation, this is great news.

If you supported Black lives Matter, you have no right to complain about this. Literally cities were burned and looted for months.

Racist 'bama hick Serg strikes again.

I'm curious, what exactly was racist about what he said?

[7,052,770]

It's pretty clear and undeniable at this point that these platforms are in the pocket of the left. If you are against the political establishment, and for liberty, platforms and tech companies will deny your service and deplatform you to stop any threat to their power.

Ah, that explains why day after day after day, the top Facebook shared and liked stories after from Ben Shapiro and other right-wing blowhards.

[DrScholl]

It's pretty clear and undeniable at this point that these platforms are in the pocket of the left. If you are against the political establishment, and for liberty, platforms and tech companies will deny your service and deplatform you to stop any threat to their power.

Oh, stop the victimhood. Campaigns that violate terms of service are shut down all the time. The paranoid idea that everyone is out to get the right-wing is absurd.

[Santander]

Being patriotic is not allowed anymore. If they shut down the fundraiser, they should be returning every cent back to the donors, not funneling it into left-wing charities.

We need to show the truckers even more support now.

[Calthrina950]

It's pretty clear and undeniable at this point that these platforms are in the pocket of the left. If you are against the political establishment, and for liberty, platforms and tech companies will deny your service and deplatform you to stop any threat to their power.

Ah, that explains why day after day after day, the top Facebook shared and liked stories after from Ben Shapiro and other right-wing blowhards.

But does the right wing control Facebook? Is Mark Zuckerberg a conservative Republican?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Being patriotic is not allowed anymore. If they shut down the fundraiser, they should be returning every cent back to the donors, not funneling it into left-wing charities.

We need to show the truckers even more support now.

Donors will get a refund if they request it; if they don't, the money will go to charities.  (I do agree that the latter should be an opt-in rather than opt-out.)

[ElectionsGuy]

It's pretty clear and undeniable at this point that these platforms are in the pocket of the left. If you are against the political establishment, and for liberty, platforms and tech companies will deny your service and deplatform you to stop any threat to their power.

Ah, that explains why day after day after day, the top Facebook shared and liked stories after from Ben Shapiro and other right-wing blowhards.

But does the right wing control Facebook? Is Mark Zuckerberg a conservative Republican?

Facebook shut down the trucker convoy page. It's always entertaining when Dems think conservative's popularity on Facebook means conservatives are treated equally and fairly. The reality right now is, big tech and the media treat conservatives and opposition to the current political establishment like they are a fringe, 20% or less of the country, group that needs to be controlled and suppressed for the "safety" of the population. Yet they are nearly half the country, and their popularity on these platforms in spite of conservatives disproportionately not using social media and being subject to disproportionate censorship should tell you just how "mainstream" people like Ben Shapiro and his opinions are in the general populace.