No Cash For Hate, Say Mainstream Crowdfunding Firms (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Online fund-raising sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields, the man accused of driving his car into counter-protesters at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. GoFundMe, Kickstarter and other mainstream crowdfunding firms have policies that prohibit hate speech or abuse, the latest example of technology firms making it harder for far-right groups to organize online. Fields is accused of killing one woman and injuring 19 others on Saturday after the rally in Charlottesville turned violent. Supporters of Fields, who was denied bail at a court hearing in Virginia on Monday, have turned to the internet to raise money for his legal defense. GoFundMe, one of the two leading crowdfunding firms, said on Monday it has removed multiple fundraising campaigns for Fields, because the company prohibits the promotion of hate speech and violence.

Comments

Re:Black Lives Matter

[Altus]

Except no such thing ever happened. BLM never called for the attack and issued a statement condemning it immediately after, something our bullshit president couldn't even do after a shit stain terrorist in a charger drove over a bunch of innocent people.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/da...

Re:Black Lives Matter

[ganjadude]

i would have a better time believing that if they didnt walk around with signs showing dead cops and screaming things like "what do we want DEAD COPS when do with want them NOW

this isnt the fringe this is the leadership

Re:Black Lives Matter

[MightyMartian]

I love how you invent a whole new narrative for BLM that appears to have little or nothing to do with what BLM is about. But hey, I get it, those uppety blacks are making noise, so we'd best go around and compare them gangsta rappers and the Black Panthers.