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Despite technical issues caused by a surge in traffic, the new campaign is growing quickly
A website hosting a new fundraising effort to back up truck drivers protesting vaccine mandates in Canada is experiencing major technical difficulties, with a moving ridge of traffic crashing the platform subsequently GoFundMe canceled a prior campaign that garnered millions of dollars.
Shortly after GoFundMe gave the boot to the 'Freedom Convoy 2022' campaign on Friday afternoon, organizers fabricated another endeavor on Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, raising more than $150,000 in just a matter of hours. A spike in visitors has caused bug for the website, however.
"We know the site is slow, or getting a server error. We are working on it! All hands on deck. There'southward thousands on [the site] making successful donations so delight try again if y'all get an error!" it said.
We know the site is slow, or getting a server error. We are working on it! All hands on deck. There's thousands on making successful donations so please attempt once more if you lot get an error! (also fending off any attacks which just come up with the territory) Pray for wisdom & resilience!
— GiveSendGo (@GiveSendGo) Feb 5, 2022
The new fundraiser features a brief video from organizer Tamara Lich, who explained that GoFundMe had shut down the previous campaign that raised effectually $viii million (Can$10 million) after only disbursing $1 million, freezing the rest.
"Nosotros decided to team up with an organization called GiveSendGo, which is going to enable us to become donations into the hands of the truckers much, much quicker while everybody gets the rest of this stuff sorted out," she said, adding "You know nosotros plan to be here for the long-haul, as long as it takes to ensure that your rights and freedoms are restored."
The coin is being raised to back up a convoy of truckers who have descended on the Canadian uppercase to demand an end to cantankerous-border vaccine requirements, staging a massive protest in Ottawa. Others accept gathered near the border with the U.s., creating a blockade of large rigs and other vehicles.
While local law accept denounced the gatherings as disruptive and unlawful, regime have been unable to disperse the demonstrators for several days. On the heels of GoFundMe's determination to scrap the original fund drive, the Ottawa Constabulary Service cheered the move, thanking the site for "listening to our concerns as a City and a police force service."
"The decision to withhold funding for these unlawful demonstrations is an important stride and we telephone call on all crowdfunding sites to follow," it said.
After a review of "relevant facts" and discussions with officials in Ottawa, GoFundMe said the Freedom Convoy campaign violated its rules against "the promotion of violence and harassment," claiming what had begun as a "peaceful sit-in" had evolved into an illegal "occupation."
"Given how this situation has evolved, no farther funds volition 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 platform said.
Though millions of dollars remain frozen by the site, it has offered to refund money to whatever donors who request it by February xix, and said it would continue to work with organizers to send the remaining funds to any charities it considers to be "apparent and established."
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Source: https://www.rt.com/news/548395-freedom-convoy-fundrasier-platform/