Crowd fundraising site says they will defy Canadian court order to stop disbursing funds to convoy p
Source: CNN
protesters
Online crowd fundraising site GiveSendGo said on Twitter it will not follow a Canadian court order mandating it stop distributing funds to convoy protesters.
"Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo," the company wrote on Twitter. "All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns."
The Superior Court of Justice in Ontario granted a restraining order requested by the Government of Ontario against the company and others, asking that funds to the protesters be halted over $8.7 million USD has been raised in one campaign.
Ontario Attorney General spokesperson Brian Gray told CNN the order prohibits, "any person from disposing of, or otherwise dealing with, in any manner whatsoever, any and all monetary donations made through the Freedom Convoy 2022 and Adopt-a-Trucker campaign pages on the GiveSendGo online fundraising platform."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/crowd-fundraising-site-says-they-will-defy-canadian-court-order-to-stop-disbursing-funds-to-convoy-protesters/ar-AATKdgec
Rather arrogant and delusional pricks aren't they
PortTack
(32,793 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)Sorry, that was probably a rhetorical question.
Justice matters.
(6,941 posts)Peter Thiel is backing a new generation of Trump-aligned Republicans
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/tech/peter-thiel-facebook-exit-gop-politics/index.Bke
Another tech-billionaire asshole... investing in chaos... Trump supporter,
Icanthinkformyself
(221 posts)reason to tax billionaires out of existence. Can't live on a couple hundred million? Gee, too bad.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,657 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)slightlv
(2,840 posts)site a "Christian" based site? I think I read that when they first popped up after the original monies dried up for the truckers on gofundme. If so, that explains the arrogance!
Mawspam2
(740 posts)20% for the hosting house? Oh those charitable Xtians.
Justice matters.
(6,941 posts)BIG BAD troubles...
Link to tweet
PortTack
(32,793 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)That much is true. While the money is in the US, that site can manage it, bank it, shunt it around internal accounts, make bookkeeping entries, count pennies in their vault, etc.
But ...
The Canadian government can control funds like that when they come across the border. They have the power to seize money that would go to criminal enterprises.
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)I can only assume they will soon lose the ability to process payments.
Icanthinkformyself
(221 posts)see that defiance will, for the most part, result in little or no consequences. Refusal to comply has become the order of the day for the right. Government and law enforcement are tongue tied, hornswoggled, befuddled and baffled in response, or, supportive and standing down. If these were POC or progressives non-violently protesting, well,.....