Go Fund Me: As Good as You’d Expect!

Making Giving to Billionaires Frictionless since 2010

I now think that we’ve done grave, potentially irreparable damage to our planet for the sake of convenience and easy, addictive tech that adds little to our real lives. From doomscrolling to mindless games and artificial girlfriends and boyfriends, tech has enabled us to escape real life.

Let’s take GoFundMe.com for example.

This “donation service” has been in the news because of the for-profit, privately-held company’s rash, ill-considered decision that it would take $10 million worth of public donations to the Freedom Convoy of Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates. It would take that donated cash from individuals away from the Freedom Convoy and give it to “vetted” charities determined by the GoFundMe.com’s executives.

Oh, no they won’t . . . now they’ve had massive amounts of chargebacks, terrible PR, and millions are now aware that not only is GoFundMe.com not the “good guys,” they are bad … very bad.

GoFundMe.com isn’t a nonprofit. It has a nonprofit arm, GoFundMe.net which appears to be a pass through organization, enabling them to … well, do what they wanted to try with the Freedom Convoy funding. Spend what they want: on what they wanted to.