This behavior is simply vicious.
Protestors have the right to assemble peacefully.
These people have no right to this criminal behavior.
"Let’s get the legalities out of the way first. The hacked donor base was obtained through the commission of a cybercrime. Distributing the stolen data itself is another cybercrime. Further, possessing stolen materials on your computer is a cybercrime. There’s no exception for, “but the victims are bad people!” or even, “but the victims are criminals themselves!” (More on this later.) Canada doesn’t allow citizens to take the law into their own hands and commit crimes in the name of real or perceived justice, for obviously good reasons."
"It was over the weekend that an anti-Freedom Convoy activist hacked into GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that was used to raise more than $8 million for Canada’s anti-mandate blockaders. The hacker then released the names and personal details of donors.
What followed has been an increasingly ugly witch hunt as donors (or even just people peripherally connected to them) are threatened, fired or driven out of business. Some examples …
Ottawa’s Stella Luna Gelato Café had to close its doors after owner Tammy Giuliani was found to have given $250 to the convoy on Feb. 5 (“I’m a sucker for a grassroots cause,” she said). Giuliani said the café has since been hit with calls threatening to pitch bricks through the window or otherwise “come and get us.”
People have been boycotting David’s Tea amid word that its founder (the “David”) was a Freedom Convoy donor. There’s just a couple problems: David Segal hasn’t been involved with David’s Tea since 2006, and the $200 donation was from his wife.
A staffer for Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones has been fired for allegedly having her name tied to a $100 donation to the convoy.
Purdy Natural in London, Ont. reported that its online pages have been barraged with hate just because convoy supporters bought some of their gift bags to give to protesters. “It brought quite a bit of hateful behaviour toward us from people, sadly,” they told Postmedia.
National Post columnist Sabrina Maddeaux writes that all this vigilante harassment of Freedom Convoy donors is a great way to push even more Canadians into extreme views. “Do you know what’s a good way to push people from relatively mainstream vexation – even if expressed in problematic ways – to the fringes? Publicly doxing them, shaming them, harassing them, and calling for their jobs and livelihoods,” she wrote.
So who hacked GiveSendGo? If you believe Toronto-based hacktivist Aubrey Cottle, it was him (or, at least, that’s what he screamed in a recent TikTok video). Cottle has previously done hacking work for both the FBI and CSIS, as covered by a 2020 profile in The Atlantic. "
Sabina Maddeaux
Half of donations are from the United States.
A CBC News analysis of hacked data about those who donated to the protest convoys through GiveSendGo found more than half of the donations came from the U.S. It’s raising concern about foreign funding of political activity.
"Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.
According to the regulations published late Tuesday, financial institutions are required to monitor and halt all transactions that funnel money to demonstrators — a measure designed to cut off funding to a well-financed protest that has taken over large swaths of Ottawa's downtown core."
There has to be a reason the RCMP hasn't taken over the case and disbursed the group.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottawa-protests-1.6353968