You Will Own Nothing

by Carol Roth

A GoFundMe page was put up and raised more than C$10 million from supporters. Despite its headquarters being located in California, the site bowed to political pressure from the Canadian government. GoFundMe put out a statement saying the fundraiser was a violation of their terms of service as its reason to remove it from the platform.73 Another US-based crowdfunding site, GiveSendGo, was used to raise close to $10 million from supporters, many of whom reportedly resided in the US. Hackers decided to align with the Canadian government, attacked the GiveSendGo website, and leaked private data on who had made the contributions.74 The hackers posted a message intimating that the protest was an “insurrection” and alluding to the Canadian government’s desire to freeze the assets of the participants.