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"GiveSendGo bills itself as the Christian alternative to GoFundMe — a platform
committed to sharing “the Hope of Jesus through crowdfunding.” In addition to
typical crowdfunding campaigns for medical bills and memorial funds, the site
has a right-wing political edge. GiveSendGo is the preferred platform of
alleged co-conspirators in Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election:
Attorneys Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and John Eastman all have legal-defense
fundraisers on the site.
But the GiveSendGo platform is also a hit with white-supremacists and
neo-Nazis. Rolling Stone has discovered nearly a dozen active,
white-supremacist fundraisers on GiveSendGo. Beneficiaries of these campaigns
include some of the nation’s most notorious neo-Nazis, among them leaders of
groups like the Goyim Defense League, NSC-131 and Blood Tribe. One campaign
seeks to counter the “hegemony” of those denigrated as “a hostile alien people,
Jews.”
These campaigns are hiding in plain sight. And the crowds they attract are even
more brazen in their hate. Donors have adopted usernames that are racial slurs
— including the n-word — or that spoof the names of Nazi leaders like Hitler
and Himmler. Others leave coded messages of hate like “HH” (“Heil Hitler”) and
“88” (the 8s correspond to the eighth letter of alphabet — H), or references to
the “14 words”, a bleak white-supremacist motto about securing a “future for
white children.” Others mash these up with the telegraphic combo, “1488.”
GiveSendGo did not respond to questions from
Rolling Stone about these
campaigns — which have raised, collectively, tens of thousands of dollars. The
platform’s terms of service ostensibly prohibit crowdfunding to “promote hate,
violence, [and] racial intolerance.” But in practice GiveSendGo has notoriously
hands-off moderation. This has helped it emerge as “a singularly important part
of the extremist fundraising ecosystem,” according to a report published
earlier this year by the ADL’s Center on Extremism."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
