#GoFundTheWall has raised over $5M in 3 days to privately fund building Trump's "wall"

[CS1983]

Real talk.
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[hurley842002]

Relevant to the thread.

[TheGrey]

That's very interesting how you say "guy". As far as I know, he is a guy, right? Unless I missed something, male is indeed his gender. Are you saying Right Wing News was founded by John Hawkins & ran by Brian Kolfag? Facebook actually gave a statement to Breitbart confirming they had given this man multiple documented warnings about his content & inauthentic activity in regards to those specific pages. FB, just like this very website, has rules & guidelines about behavior & transactions. People get banned from forums & websites for many reasons including behavior & activity that violates the sites guidelines & rules. FB had their reasons for kicking him off after they warned him & he had the choice to follow the FB rules or not. If he paid FB to advertise his stuff & they did but he didn't follow their rules after multiple warning, then that was his choice. we all make choices. Mr. Kolfage ran a Facebook page titled Right Wing News and affiliated websites VeteranAF and FreedomDaily, according to an NBC News report. The sites promoted conspiracies & featured incendiary content. The websites were taken down after a man sued FreedomDaily and other sites for misidentifying him as the person who drove into a crowd and killed a protester at a 2017 rally involving white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. I assume the judge in the suit prevented the pages from going back up. You said Right Wing News was 17 yrs old. Being 17 yrs old doesn't matter, If FB didn't want that page on their servers because it was violating their rules, age of page is not relevant. Why not just make another ad page on another site like he has before? What's stopping him from establishing a .com address for that site? And it wasn't Facebook didn't shut down his servers on this site: https://fight4freespeech.com. I am not sure who or what shut that down, but he seems to have simply made a new website: http://iraq.trendolizer.com/2018/10/...n-kolfage.html and guess what? You can donate money here as well. Facebook is not the only place to advertise his coffee or his donation requests, he is doing quite well on other social media. Facebook is not stopping you from buying his coffee or donating to the remaining active websites. Facebook still has his personal page up & running, just not the fake pages, conspiracy or hate pages. And FB did not scrub his site, look at him all happy on FB: https://www.facebook.com/Brian.Kolfage.jr/. If he thinks FB is so bad, why still be on it? Maybe it's just me but if I think a website is stealing my money & doing me dirty, I would leave said website, yet here he is all happy on FB, that's not interesting, that's just weird. Donate away if you feel his altruistic endeavors touch your heart. And you can do so from many sites, not just FB. Lots of chicks want to be models, not sure what his wives desire to be in Maxim has any relevance at all but it interesting trivia, I guess. Since you brought her up for no reason, I looked her up found her on FB. That's how he found her too! Cute right? She is so fit, her abs are amazing! I love Maxim, this was interesting!

I think you are being deliberately obtuse, and are seeking instead to obfuscate facts.
Yes, FreedomDaily was sued, as were several other sites, for misidentifying the driver in that awful incident. However, Kolfage was NOT named as a defendant. The wrongly-named man and his father sued the sites and the writers of the story, and settled $4990.00 to each man, in addition to the site GotNews paying $19,990 in settlement. GotNews was one of the alt-right sites.

17 years on FB IS relevant when it comes to a business relationship; that much money paid out certainly means something to a business owner. He had established thousands of followers, and groomed quite a following. Facebook had also given his Right Wing News page a blue check, which was maintained up until the day the site was taken down. We've seen just how trustworthy Facebook is when it comes to being brought to question as to privacy concerns and so on, so of course they're going to say that they warned him and warned him.

He does have another site, in addition to the one you have listed. He's had to shift his business to other platforms, which means that he could either start over (not a good idea for his situation) or maintain contact with his followers and his customers through his personal page. The fact that you would simply leave the website suggests to me that you don't have similar business structure that must be maintained.

I don't need you to tell me to go ahead and donate to his cause or buy his coffee. What I do or do not do is my own personal business, not yours. I responded to your post because it was inaccurate and the first sentence implied fraud.

Oh, and his site Fight4FreeSpeech.com comes up fine for me. https://www.fight4freespeech.com/

[Irving]

Sent some $ in. Christmas present to myself.


For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭

So are you getting a refund, or letting your money ride on the new company?

ETA: Actually, I read more into the article and it looks like refunds are automatic unless otherwise state by donors. So, it's really none of my business. I just wanted to draw attention to it for you so you could get your money back if that's what you wanted.

For context: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/1...o-castle-rock/

Basically, the goFundMe organizer changed what he was going to do with the money, so GoFundMe is automatically refunding donations.

[CS1983]

https://hillreporter.com/head-of-bor...ifestyle-35357

[Gman]

I'm shocked.

[roberth]

I'm shocked.

I'm not.

[davsel]

The only time I have ever used GoFundMe was for this effort.
Got a bad feeling about the email I received when it was going to be transferred to start an "organization."
Glad I opted to get my money back.

Dick move.

He apparently has a habit: https://theweirdturnprofessional.wor...scam-revealed/

[FoxtArt]

Totally called this one. News flash, if an individual is privately soliciting donations for a public political cause, it will pretty much always be a scam. Normal people run their money through non profits and orgs with public accounting. Even if someone had (mild) intent to do "something good" that's just their rationalization for what they actually do when a couple million is deposited into their account. Next time, ask yourself: if your shady cousin started asking for everyone to give him money and then he would totaaaally donate it to another cause, would you do it? If no, then why the heck do you do it to a total stranger with the internet's biggest cardboard sign "need your money to help you donate to other stuff"

[Gman]

I'm shocked.

I'm not.

I didn't think the was necessary, but apparently it was. Maybe I should have used the Sarcastica font?