News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser by gkalyT on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:27PM (#30215600)
I have seen no credible evidence of violence, this is a smear campaign. Canada seems to be run like Cuba. While the Castro lineage is officially denied, this article contains some instructive allegations of close ties:

https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-just...

Re:GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser by joe_91 on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:38PM (#30215698)
I think it's interesting how they justify giving 1 million of the donation proceeds to the Organisers but then decide that the rest just doesn't make the cut.

It would be nice if they provided some evidence showing the organisers having anything to do with - "promotion of violence and harassment".

With any of these large scale protests there will be some bad eggs who appear to cause havoc...

Re:GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser by version_five on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:42PM (#30215735)
> With any of these large scale protests there will be some bad eggs who appear to cause havoc...

Right, and there is the opportunity for the spin. A protest you like, it's a few isolated incidents, a protest you don't like, you focus nonstop on the few bad people that come out. From the coverage I've seen, if the absolute worse things they can find are what's been covered nonstop (a couple flags, dressing up a statue unoffensively, people peeing outside) I think it's hard to argue this is a violent or dangerous protest. But people on both sides have a political agenda and are hammering on that instead of having an actual dialog

Re:GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser by ekianjo on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:28PM (#30217428)
> there will be some bad eggs who appear to cause havoc...

especially it's so easy to plant some people, and you have a whole league of people in modern democracies who are doing such kind of operations on a payroll.

Re:GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser by DaltonCoffee on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:02AM (#30219643)
I was honestly shocked by the lack of agent provacateurs.
Re:GoFundMe Statement on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Fundraiser by jim-jim-jim on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:36PM (#30216142)
Please don't besmirch Cuba by comparing it to Canada.