The irony of this investigation is that GiveSendGo is the crowdfunding platform that’s currently engaged in deceptive trade practices by failing to enforce provisions of its terms that prevent the site from being used to fund unlawful activity.
https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1491446442564923392
GiveSendGo’s terms prohibit the use of the service to support “activities that violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation related to […] (c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity” among other things.
GiveSendGo is clearly not enforcing those terms. But to its credit GoFundMe did enforce its terms against using the site to fund illegal activity. So which site is engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices?
Now that we’ve turned the Ottawa Occupation into a cross-border phenomenon, maybe @MassAGO could investigate GiveSendGo since it seems they are based in Massachusetts. crunchbase.com/organization/g…
Or @DE_DOJ might investigate since that’s where GiveSendGo is incorporated. Or frankly any Democratic AG who wants to do the right thing.
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