Thread by @sighing_sadly

@TheQuartering @gofundme The rationale, itself, is an admission of corruption. In real life, public defenders are overworked, and are infamous for not going a great job of defending their clients.

@TheQuartering @gofundme To block fundraisers for those accused of violent crimes is to interfere with the ability of those so accused to get fair trials.

The company should not be at liberty to do that, period.

@TheQuartering @gofundme As important as free markets are, the right of a defendant in a criminal trial is far more important.

Economic ideas should not be prioritized over concerns about basic civil liberties.

@TheQuartering @gofundme If somebody ends up in prison because he couldn't afford decent legal representation, then he is an innocent man who has been wrongly imprisoned.

Hard to picture a more basic violation of civil liberties than that.

@TheQuartering @gofundme Good to know that @gofundme sank to that kind of behavior. The government might have to let them get away with that in the absence of any laws against the practice, but the rest of us don't have to.

There is no ex post facto rule for private boycotts of sleazily run businesses.

@TheQuartering @gofundme Just did a search and found this.

wfla.com/news/national/…

and a great many other hits

google.com/search?q=gofun…

that say much the same, confirming what the OP said. There should be no coming back from something like this, from denying the accused a chance to get a fair trial.

@TheQuartering @gofundme Or even for trying to do that. I hope that others will also block @gofundme, and having found out who is behind that site, refuse to do business with them, permanently, boycotting all of their future efforts.

@TheQuartering @gofundme This is a link to a listing of the members of their executive team.



I've archived it in both Archive Today and the Wayback Machine. Let's get really, unforgivingly vindictive about this, boycotting their future employers until they get fired.gofundme.com/c/executive-te…

@TheQuartering @gofundme They tried to destroy this man's life, so let's teach them a lesson by destroying theirs, without breaking even a single law.

What are they going to charge us with? Malicious non-shopping? No law against that.