Article content continued

FundRazr, based in Vancouver, is a crowdfunding site similar to GoFundMe and IndieGoGo which hosts third-party funding campaigns.

Daryl Hatton, FundRazr’s chief executive officer, said the company was unaware of the Hale campaign and halted it when told of it.

“We shut the campaign down because it violates the terms of service. It was there in the first place because it was inherited from a sister site that was running with our technology to do funding of legal defence campaigns,” he said.

“It was so small nobody looked at it and I didn’t know the name of this guy until everyone pointed out he was this neo-Nazi,” Hatton said.

FundRazr relies on users to report campaigns that appear to violate the terms of service, which prohibits “the legal defense of alleged crimes associated with hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind.”

He said no complaint reports were made against the campaign, even though some comments on the campaign page accused it for supporting a neo-Nazi.

It was so small nobody looked at it and I didn’t know the name of this guy until everyone pointed out he was this neo-Nazi

It was paused when Global News asked the company about the page, Hatton said. On Thursday, however, the promotional Hale site was still publicly available, although with no ability to donate.

Hatton said he will delete it.

Before being stopped, the campaign attracted support from Canada, including two men listed as “leaders” in the effort and appear to be Canadian members of the Creativity Movement, according to a report on the campaign by MEMRI.