Patreon locks up $250k in donations for Ukrainian veterans

[jtsuken]

https://www.patreon.com/savelife_in_ua

[dobrinya]

hello!

atm writing from kyiv. after a day in fear and anxiety, patreon blocks one of the of the civilian aid resources (prolly because of the amount of money being rolled by ukranians as of today) https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ (yeah - shitty en localisation, doubt there was any need before)

would be amazing if some of you had any contacts in patreon and could pass on the message

thanks from kyiv

[jtsuken]

Patreon removed the page of the foundation savelife.in.ua. They support the veterans of the Ukrainian army and act as source of news from the frontlines.

Today their account on Patreon was removed and they lost access to the funds donated.

Full message in Ukrainian is in their facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/

[nojokes → jtsuken]

I will cancel all my Patreon subscriptions (sorry collateral damage).

[Kye → nojokes]

Ask the people you support for alternatives. Ko-fi seems to be the main #2.

[sandgiant → nojokes]

You can erase your account here: https://privacy.patreon.com/policies?modal=take-control

[taffit → nojokes]

Cancelled my account as well.

[dade_]

They have a website to make donations here: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

These crowd funding sites are turning out to be a disaster. Too many competing interests, values and laws.

[vanger]

They are claiming that they are spending money on weapons but they don't - as non-profit they cannot do that. Instead they spend all the money on medical kits, medical trainings, night-sight devices and so on.

[jtsuken]

Here are some details from Patreon. Though "we are investigating" during an evolving emergency situation is the least helpful of approaches.

https://twitter.com/patreonsupport/status/149700257340388557...