GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns (slashgear.com)

An anonymous reader quotes SlashGear: Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has banned campaigns that seek funds for spreading misinformation related to vaccines, the company has revealed. The platform has been used in the past by anti-vaxxers as part of their mission to promote conspiracy theories related to supposed health issues caused by vaccinations. Current campaigns in violation of this new rule will be removed.

GoFundMe has previously faced controversy for allowing anti-vax campaigns on the platform, including late last year when a mother sought funds for a custody battle allegedly intending to, in part, prevent her kids from being vaccinated. An increasing number of tech companies have cracked down on anti-vaccination content, including Facebook and Pinterest, and now GoFundMe is among them.

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Re:Polarization is making this worse...

[Anonymous Coward]

re: what you said about pro-vaxxers, the reason they're not over the counter is because while safe it doesn't mean any fool should be able to administer them any time either

(btw being OTC has little bearing on overall safety, just take Tylenol, that stuff is basically poison)

pro-pharma shills? I mean seriously, such profits as pharma makes from childhood vaccinations are so tiny as to be less than a rounding error. The total revenue, so before profits, world-wide, of childhood vaccinations is less than 1% of total pharma revenue

the short version there are plenty of reasons to hate on pharma but vaccinations ain't one of them

now on the other hand, I haven't heard of a single case of a pro-vaxxer making death threats against an anti-vaxxer but there are loads of instances of the reverse, so the reason anti-vaxxers get treated like crazies is because a whole lot of them are acting like crazies, maybe it's a minority, but you associate with nuts, you get labeled a nut too