Rules in canada for several weeks now. Traveling across the country before arriving in the Capitol Of Ottawa last week. Crowdfunding site gofundme is facing criticism after it shut down the Fundraising Page yesterday. The company said it made the decision based on Law Enforcement reports that the convoy had become violent and unlawful. And says it will refund the millions of Dollars Worth of donations. Brian is alive in our New York City newsroom with more on this and growing controversy, brian big. I need a good evening. Police in ottawa have had enough of the socalled freedom convoy of canadian truckers. Audible Police Declared the protests and unlawful occupation that was quote increasingly volatile and dangerous. Reportedly there have been numerous harassment complaints by residents including a Class Action Lawsuit filed against the truckers and the blaring of their horn. As a result go finally pulled the plug on the convoy Fundraising Page was raised over 10 million Canadian Dolla
Rules in canada for several weeks now. Traveling across the country before arriving in the Capitol Of Ottawa last week. Crowdfunding site gofundme is facing criticism after it shut down the Fundraising Page yesterday. The company said it made the decision based on Law Enforcement reports that the convoy had become violent and unlawful. And says it will refund the millions of Dollars Worth of donations. Brian is alive in our New York City newsroom with more on this and growing controversy, brian big. I need a good evening. Police in ottawa have had enough of the socalled freedom convoy of canadian truckers. Audible Police Declared the protests and unlawful occupation that was quote increasingly volatile and dangerous. Reportedly there have been numerous harassment complaints by residents including a Class Action Lawsuit filed against the truckers and the blaring of their horn. As a result go finally pulled the plug on the convoy Fundraising Page was raised over 10 million Canadian Dolla
disruption. then you would think they would be pulling down every blm organization or affiliate organization but that is not what is happening. we know that gofundme gave to blm when those protests were taking place in the violence was carried out in cities, cause deaths and epic about a half a billion dollars worth of destruction in the cities. they are very subjective and i will say this is why we need nondiscrimination language that will be in the government and legislation that we will pass dealing with the big tech companies. jon: listen to what jonathan turley the professor has to say about gofundme and the kind of power it seems to be exercising. this is a danger to many of us in the free-speech community that have been voicing for
charities or groups or something, people on the gofundme site. fortunately for giving the money back in the money is going to the freedom convoy through other avenues. but this is why we have to go when and we have to deal with the big tech companies, the social media platforms in the way they are conducting themselves in the virtual space. jon: i want to get to that in a minute i know you wrote a letter about that but regarding blm and the seattle occupation back in the summer of 2020. gofundme had no problems supporting those operations. there were murderers in the chop zone in seattle in looting and arson all kinds of problems resulting from the blm protest telecast the country, some
probing gofundme over potential fraud and deception of donors in their state, critics say gofundme is a political censorship by shutting down the freedom convoy fundraiser while promoting the fundraiser industry in 2020 where the anti-police occupation in seattle. the mayor of ottawa, canada s capital city has declared a state of emergency over the trucker demonstration. for more than a week now, thousands of canadian truckers have been protesting the open 19 restrictions and vaccine mandate to multiple canadian cities including ottawa, gofundme shut down the freedom convoy fundraiser because they say the ottawa police provided evidence that the protest had turned into an unlawful occupation violated the terms of service by providing violence and harassment. the city is under siege, this is a threat to our democracy.