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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by nostrebored on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:24PM (#14924505)
This is not necessarily true. I believe in the US, fundraising would make you an accessory, just as encouraging someone's criminal action where they have clear intent to commit a crime would be.

Fundraising for legal actions is certainly speech, and the effort Southern was supporting was in accordance with international law.

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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by fweespeech on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:28PM (#14924964)
> This is not necessarily true. I believe in the US, fundraising would make you an accessory, just as encouraging someone's criminal action where they have clear intent to commit a crime would be.

And now you understand why they booted Lauren Southern. Money is fungible and she fund raised for an activity that was legally dubious.

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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by nostrebored on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:47PM (#14925725)
It's not legally dubious. Fundraising money with an explicitly legal purpose is legal. The potential for misuse at some future date does not an accessory make
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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by fweespeech on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:10PM (#14962728)
> It's not legally dubious. Fundraising money with an explicitly legal purpose is legal. The potential for misuse at some future date does not an accessory make

The purpose with patreon being to fund her "journalistic activities" which included the legally dubious action.

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