I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by zucker42 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:14PM (#23615920)

What is the ostensible purpose behind that law? Seems like something you could get changed (with considerable effort) considering there appear to be no strong interests who benefit from it.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by rverghese on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:27PM (#23616162)

People pretending to be charities and scamming donations. The idea would be that all legitimate charities are registered and have a permit. If they don't, it's likely a scam.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by Ndymium on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:28PM (#23616188)

I think it's originally to prevent scammers. Like if someone was collecting money door-to-door and then said that people willingly donated to them (which would be true). I think it's just to add oversight into those kind of situations and to prevent scam money collection campaigns.

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