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GoFundMe freezes donations for The Grayzone, sparking free speech debate
Aljazeera ^ | 09/01/2023 | Erin Hale

Posted on 09/01/2023 8:44:29 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina

GoFundMe froze a fundraising campaign for the far-left news outlet The Grayzone due to “external concerns”, in the latest case to highlight the contentious role of tech companies in regulating controversial speech.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freespeech; givesendgo; gofundme
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1 posted on 09/01/2023 8:44:29 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: TexasKamaAina

Oh… now that they’re freezing leftist accounts, NOW it’s a free speech issue…


2 posted on 09/01/2023 8:48:03 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: TexasKamaAina

sucks to be them


3 posted on 09/01/2023 8:52:01 AM PDT by slapshot ( - Get woke go broke-)
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To: Skywise
Oh… now that they’re freezing leftist accounts, NOW it’s a free speech issue…


4 posted on 09/01/2023 8:52:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Skywise

True that. Keep in mind that this is coming from AlGorezeera.


5 posted on 09/01/2023 8:52:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

A cookie requirement covered This Guy’s screen like wallpaper (no cookies please!), but a tiny part of the top of the screen allowed a line-by-line viewing of the story.

The offense leading to the interruption of funds appears to be a left-wing version of opposition to continued U.S. funding of or involvement in the Ukraine-Russia war.


6 posted on 09/01/2023 8:53:10 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: TexasKamaAina

Weirdly, FR has been allowing a bunch of left wing posters to post extensively from the Grayzone. Back in the day we would zot those people.


7 posted on 09/01/2023 8:54:14 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Skywise

Stunning. GoFundMe shut me and other Trump supporters off when we were wildfire refugees. They said it wasn’t a legitimate cause. It was legitimate for lefties and illegal aliens. They stayed on with no problem for the same fire. 3 years ago. Same thing with Facebook.

Thank you, FreeRepublic. The only place I was allowed to speak about it.

Losing everything and being homeless was awful but being told to shut up about it because you are one of “those people” was devastating.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 8:55:11 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Hard to feel bad for Mate’and Blumenthal, these are the companies/entities that their political and social communities have lauded for years.
“It’s a private company”
Now the alligator is chewy on thier butt and it’s a bad thing.


9 posted on 09/01/2023 8:55:40 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: AuntB

Use Give Send Go.


10 posted on 09/01/2023 8:57:55 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

They froze a leftist account, and now everybody is all upset. Filthy hypocrites! You didn’t care when the illegitimates froze normal peoples’ accounts, so now you can go perform any number of useless, self-defeating tasks similar to “go pound sand!”.


11 posted on 09/01/2023 8:59:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If genitals don't define gender, how does removing them affirm it? )
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Matt Taibbi recently wrote about GoFu##Me


12 posted on 09/01/2023 8:59:29 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Skywise
now that they’re freezing leftist accounts, NOW it’s a free speech issue

Came here to say this. But, they get away with it, so why not? We just let em run with it, and the mainstream idiot voter is too stupid to realize it, so here we are!

13 posted on 09/01/2023 9:02:12 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Can’t we all not get along with restricting speech?


14 posted on 09/01/2023 9:02:44 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Eagles6

Way past too late.


15 posted on 09/01/2023 9:03:59 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: TexasKamaAina

GoFundMe are professional thieves . - Elon Musk:.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4035765/posts


16 posted on 09/01/2023 9:09:16 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Eagles6

Can’t be said enough. GiveSendGo. GiveSendGo. GiveSendGo.


17 posted on 09/01/2023 9:11:43 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

They were always cutting off conservative causes. They really infuriated me when they allowed a GoFundMe for Lieutenant Michael Byrd after he executed Ashley Babbitt.
I wrote them and told them of my objection to them having a fund for a murderer, but they would not even answer me.


18 posted on 09/01/2023 9:15:22 AM PDT by wbslws
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To: TexasKamaAina

So stupid.

First Amendment “Free Speech” issues are directed at the federal government and nowhere else.

The government has NO RIGHT to regulate an individual’s or private business’ free speech. But an individual or private business may regulate speech however they choose.

But like everything else, the Delusional Lying Left and its Media Minions turn the Constitution on its head and instead try to use government to regulate free speech among private citizens and private business.

The problem is so much of the semi-alert populace is completely unaware of this dichotomy and Leftist effort to rob their constitutionally-protected freedoms.


19 posted on 09/01/2023 9:21:44 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: AuntB

Hope you’re doing well. These disasters take a long time.


20 posted on 09/01/2023 9:31:01 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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