You should also know that, despite using a non-US based web server, and NOT google, my search for the site was altered during results loading, and even when the url was typed in, I was redirected twice…
Seems the Elders of the Internet don’t want people remembering.
Don’t let this be silenced.
Why should we know that a snide site profiting off of the popular support of his criminal defense exists? Sure they probably donated once to his defense, but this seems like wolves among sheep. Strange that you would post about it in this manner.
Goddamn not everything has to become a hypercapitalist merch moment. Don’t fall for unofficial unaffiliated “promises” to donate “a portion”, just fucking donate directly and save yourself the trouble that the shirt or mug or whatever would give you after the second wash.
tbh even the crowdfunding site
https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
linked from the official info site
https://www.luigimangioneinfo.com/pages/contributions/
is fishy as hell, a fundie christian setup with a prayer wall page and funding campaign categories including ‘church,’ ‘evangelism,’ and ‘mission’
see also the citations on its wikipedia page - history of far right stuff
Parasites will keep existing as long as we have idiots buying their shit.
I still don’t get how “merch” is a thing. So much waste for nothing.
Is this a legit site? Seems weird.
From the site:
Directing portions of proceeds to Luigi’s GiveSendgo defense fund
our products are not officially endorsed by Luigi Mangione, his representatives, or any associated entities.
So no, it’s not official.
They have some photos of donation receipts but there’s no amount, I haven’t made the effort to see if the IDs on them can be publicly traced to that.
Nowhere on the website does it say what portion of proceeds are donated.
So it’s a scam, essentially.
Yup. Without sufficient evidence to the contrary, one can assume it is a scam.
Correct… There is an official site ran by his legal team… Why is this trwsh being posted here?
Do you have a link to it?
https://thebrainbin.org/m/luigimangione@lemmy.world/t/577554/Luigi-Mangione-Legal-Defense-Information-Official-Website-for-info-on
He is the fedi thread about it
thebrainbin.org/m/luigimangione@lemmy.world/t/577554/Luigi-Mangione-Legal-Defense-Information-Official-Website-for-info-on
“But it had shitty URL hijacking redirect ads and I had trouble finding it in search engines! IT’S BEING REPRESSED!”
I mean I upvoted thinking this was the real site… Obviously the honest people of the comment section got to the truth here.
OP reported as a scam.
I’m genuinely glad you were able to employ an amount of critical thinking that it would appear that OP had not done. It’s unfortunately incredibly necessary with basically anything you can find on the internet, and equally unfortunately lacking.
I agree. Probably just some schmuck trying to profit off of Luigi hype.
despite using a non-US based web server, and NOT google, my search for the site was altered during results loading, and even when the url was typed in, I was redirected twice…
What does that mean?
and even when the url was typed in, I was redirected twice…
Yeah i highly doubt that
Nah I’ve had this you type full address and it does a search instead that still leads to the link very annoying.
So have you tried pressing enter or did you click the top thing under the URL bar dropdown that said “google search result” cuz uhhhhhh
Provide steps to replicate or we’ll assume you’re just bad at technology.
Step 1 turn oven on 400° Step 2 let oven get to temp. Step 3 place head in oven wait for webpage to load. Step 4 profit?
If anything, your browser is doing shady things. Or an extension you use.
Yeah what kinda cucked software is op using. I doubt their ISP did that.
It’s suspicious to me that it’s only on a one website I’m running flaming fox with ublock og, duck duck go for the search engine. And it’s just the Spanish Genesis library site. Maybe it’s my ip I’ll try it with a VPN later.
While I think Luigi is more on the right side of history than his victim, if someone is going to claim stealth censorship they better give the steps to replicate that, and plenty of pictures/evidence so it can be verified.
Anonymous (the activists) accounts were prone to this kind of performative denounce, claiming false things instead of straight asking for help or awareness.
This Friday has him appear in New York for his case vs. the state. 100 Centre Street, Part 32, New York, NY 10013 @ 1415. I’m guessing it’s local time.
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