Freedom Convoy Raises Over $5 Million on Christian-Owned Funding Platform Despite Cyberattacks

Over $5 million has been raised for Canada Freedom Convoy on the Christian-owned platform GiveSendGo after the notoriously liberal GoFundMe announced last week it was shutting down the cause on its site.

Praise God!

It’s a win-win as far as Christians, conservatives and liberty-loving people are concerned.

GoFundMe was further outed as anti-conservative, while a pro-freedom alternative gained prominence.

Total donations to Canada Freedom Convoy stood at over $5 million as of Monday only three days after the campaign was launched on its GiveSendGo page.

The Canadian truckers and their supporters are protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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GiveSendGo’s new higher profile status has not come without growing pains.

Saturday the site reported having server errors after experiencing cyber attacks in the form of bots and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), a technique used by malicious actors to overwhelm a website with fake traffic.

In a Monday statement, GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells said, “We’ve seen nearly 10 million bots trying to overwhelm our servers in just the past two hours. Though this has caused issues for the platform, we will not let it stand in the way of providing a safe and effective means of fundraising for our campaign owner across the globe.”

The Western Journal was able to access the donation page Monday on the first try, but server errors occurred when trying to return to the page soon thereafter.

With a few tries, the page did open again.

GiveSendGo said the FreedomConvoy campaign has been its largest ever.

Rumble — an alternative to YouTube that does not censor conservative viewpoints — offered to help GiveSendGo with technical support via a Saturday tweet and the fundraising site apparently took them up on the offer.

Rumble hash-tagged “#teamwork #Freedom” after the two organizations connected.

Christopher Bedford — a senior editor with the Washington Examiner — told Fox News on Monday that his organization Right Forge, founded last spring, was also helping GiveSendGo.

Right Forge worked with the platform over the weekend “to scale them up, to defeat hacker attacks against them, to move them over to our servers,”  Bedford said.

Another Big Tech tactic employed against conservatives has been to remove them from their servers, as Amazon did to Parler last year.

GiveSendGo sought direct donations to help it ramp up its services, as well as thwart cyber attackers.

The company acknowledged the reported incidences of violence, but said that was not a reason to shut down the entire fundraising campaign.

Here’s to Canada’s liberty-loving truckers and conservative platforms like GiveSendGo helping the cause of freedom to endure.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.