The pizza assholes? I'm glad they shut this one down, but why not the other one too?

The pizza folks are jerks but not murderers. Kinda different.

They actually deserve one.

And I would submit that Slager's wife also deserves one. She's done nothing wrong, is about to have a baby and will likely be left with little to nothing due to her husband's murderous ways.

I swear there is a requirement to hire X number of them.

Maybe this one will actually do some prison time too.

While this case seems pretty clear cut, their policy would seem to prohibit funding the defense of anyone accused of murder.

Not everyone accused of murder is guilty of it - and the inability to pay for a competent defense is one of the primary reasons innocent people end up on death row. It is a shame that a fund raising tool that might be used to raise funds necessary to keep an innocent impoverished person accused of a capital crime off of death row is, at least by the terms of service (and this example) off limits.

Just find the nearest tree and make a noose?

Aside from which, the gofundme policy doesn't say no campaigns for people who are slam dunk guilty, it says it prohibits, "Campaigns in defense of formal charges of heinous crimes, including violent, hateful, or sexual acts."

So had gofundme been around when all of these innocent people who ended up on death row were charged, it would have disallowed campaigns to raise funds for a defense team that might have been competent enough to keep them off death row in the first place - and to prevent them from losing between 1 and 39 years of their lives.

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but he is not entitled to use a privately run website to fundraise. they took issue with his request and shut it down.

sP

Because their policy presumes people charged with heinous crimes are guilty.

Many people charged with heinous crimes are not guilty, but cannot afford to hire qualified defense counsel or pay for the investigation that needs to be done in order to succeed.

I don't disagree with their policies of not permitting fund raising to perpetrate criminal acts - but I do disagree with their policy of prohibiting the website from fundraising to pay for the defense for anyone (guilty or innocent) who is charged with a heinous crime.


(Aside from which his defense is not going to be paid for by the law enforcement organization he was a member of.

So now companies are rendering judgements on who is qualified to use their service. Sounds like the lunch counters of 50 years ago.