The Canadian Trucker Convoy Has Destroyed GoFundMe’s Fundraising Monopoly

If there is anything to learn from the Canadian trucker “Freedom Convoy” happening in and around Ottowa right now, it’s that the big-tech left-wing monopoly is being dismantled piece by piece.

The truckers are protesting an order from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau which implements mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations on all truck drivers to travel inside and outside of the country as of Jan. 15. While many around the globe have tried to protest draconian Covid mandates, these truckers put their money and livelihoods up to try and force Trudeau to pay attention and backdown by snarling up the capital and other parts of the country crucial for trade and commerce. It’s a strategy not everyone will agree with, but as Democrats said about BLM burning down the country in 2020, democracy is messy.

When the convoy started, a fundraising campaign was organized on the website GoFundMe. The campaign raised over $10 million Canadian dollars, mostly to pay for food and fuel to keep the trucks gassed up and hospitable.

Then, under likely pressure from the U.S. and Canadian governments, GoFundMe shut down the fundraiser and has refunded all donations.

Luckily, this is 2022, and there are dozens of other options to run a fundraiser for a political cause. Enter GiveSendGo, an alternative fundraising website that pledges objectivity and welcomed the chance to raise millions on behalf of the Canadian truckers:

After GoFundMe shut down fundraising for the Canadian “Freedom Convoy,” donors flocked to Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo to support truckers protesting vaccine mandates in Ottawa.

The founder and CFO of the platform, Jacob Wells, is now calling out GoFundMe and Big Tech for their “authoritarian style of social platforms,” which he says promote bias as fact and causes further division.

The campaign “Freedom Convoy 2022” has raised nearly $5 million through GiveSendGo as of Monday.

If it wasn’t already blatantly apparent, right-leaning political causes are not given the same deference by the big tech monopolies as left-leaning causes. GoFundMe had no problem with fundraisers for criminal agitators involved in the BLM riots of 2020 to spring them out of jail and pay legal fees.

In this case, however, a literal peaceful protest of truck drivers trying to assert their medical freedom and stop their tyrannical government from usurping their rights is a bridge too far.

As the GiveSendGo CFO and founder says, GoFundMe’s days are numbered:

“Big Tech really has taken it upon themselves to be the arbiters of truth. And it’s a place that they were never intended to be, and it’s caused more damage than good,” Wells told Fox News Digital in a phone interview Monday. “We are now stepping into that place because there is a natural pushback from many people because America was founded on these ideas of freedom.”

“This is like the tip of the spear and what is coming in a tsunami of technology that is pushing back against this authoritarian style of social platforms where it’s like these people just think that they get to control the narrative,” he said. “It’s mind-blowing to me that they actually think that is the way that it ought to be, because in my perspective, it only breeds more distrust and more vitriol, more divide.”

We are entering a period of history where services, especially tech-heavy services, can only be used by people who align with the service ideologically. This is the direct result of letting these companies have so much power and capitulate to the left-wing mob which demands absolute submission.

It’s the same thing going on with Joe Rogan and Spotify right now. You must toe the line, or you’ll be canceled and sent on your way.

For the truckers and this fundraiser, it’s an example that right-leaning causes are no longer able to be shut down and curtailed the way they were ten or even five years ago. There are now more options, there are alternatives to GoFundMe and Twitter. There are alternatives to Stripe and payment gateways that won’t work with conservative causes. There are alternatives to left-wing tech monopolies that aren’t as powerful as they were once thought they were.

As of writing, the GiveSendGo campaign has raised just over $6.5 million and counting!