GoFundMe is deleting campaigns created to support the Charlottesville attacker

GoFundMe will not allow campaigns supporting the Charlottesville attacker on its platform.

On Monday, James Fields — the man accused of killing Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters demonstrating against Nazis and white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia — told a judge at his arraignment that he can't afford a lawyer.

Since his admission, Fields' supporters have tried to start GoFundMe pages to boost his alleged $650-biweekly salary as a security guard, but the company is shutting down campaigns created in support of Fields.

"We have removed multiple campaigns for James Fields and we will continue to do so if other campaigns are created," GoFundMe Director of Strategic Communications Bobby Whithorne wrote in an email. "Those campaigns did not raise any money and they were immediately removed. We don't tolerate the promotion of hate or intolerance of any kind, and if a campaign violates GoFundMe's terms of service, we'll remove it from the platform."

While deleting campaigns to fund Fields's legal defense, GoFundMe has promoted funds for victims injured after Fields allegedly rammed his car into them.

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David Gallagher, a representative for Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site that focuses more on creative projects, said they hadn't seen any attempts to raise money for Fields.

"Because of this focus, we don't allow fundraising for charity or other types of causes," Gallagher wrote in an email. "So we haven't seen any campaigns related to the Charlottesville driver."

RootBocks, which describes itself as "the alternative, anti-censorship, crowdfunding and e-commerce platform," has promoted several fundraisers for racists over the past few days, including one for Jason Kessler, who organized the racist rally in Charlottesville.

But the crowdfunding site tweeted on Monday that their web host canceled on them, and they're allegedly in the process of switching.

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Before RootBocks started experiencing problems, Kessler's campaign to sue the city of Charlottesville had reportedly raised close to $3,000 of its $50,000 goal on the platform. He claims the city didn't do enough to protect the speakers at the rally he organized.

Rootbocks is not quite two months old, but white nationalists have endorsed it as their go-to crowdfunding site.

The platform got a rave review/advertisement on altright.com in July, a week after it came into existence. A choice quote from that review:it's

"It means that we finally have a funding resource that does not interpret advocating for our own interests as 'hate' and won’t shut us down for being 'edgy' or 'extreme.'"