GoFundMe Tries to Steal Truckers' Money

In the best tradition of robber barons, GoFundMe steals.

This is a quick story on GoFundMe’s shameless attempt to steal the truckers’ money and on the general trend of tightening financial controls.

You might have heard that GoFundMe deleted the fundraiser for the Canadian truckers, seized close to ten million U.S. dollars—and announced that they, the righteous and almighty GoFundMe, will just go ahead and distribute the funds to the charities of their choosing. (The donors may “apply” for a refund but seemingly no guarantees.)

“No further funds will be directly distributed to the Freedom Convoy organizers — we will work with organizers to send all remaining funds to credible and established charities verified by GoFundMe,” the company said.

That sounds like a democracy. By the way, the official trending Twitter page about the convoy consists of 28 tweets total—I counted by hand—all by the mainstream outlets who are audibly panting as they are trying to pull off the impossible task of narrative control.

And surely, the conspiracy theorists a…