Donate for Ukrainian war equipment: Crowdfunding portals in a dilemma
For helping Ukraine against the all-powerful aggressor Russia, numerous initiatives have been set up to collect funds for support. While many of these are pursuing humanitarian goals, some are also explicitly raising money to enable Ukrainian troops to buy war equipment and train drone pilots. But that is what puts the big crowdfunding platforms like Patreon or Gofundme in a dilemma. Founded in California's Silicon Valley, they have always followed the premise that technological developments such as the Internet should improve people's lives. As a result, they always avoided politica...