because there are quite a few people at the local levels nationally (and internationally as well I imagine) that run for various positions that don't have the financial backing of a Koch or similar that deserve an opportunity to have the same footing as someone as financially backed.

If we want to get special interests out of everything like we claim, then we need to have the platforms for people to get themselves out there to be both effective and cheap enough to do so.

>Why,? The world would be a better place with less pointless political advertising

Who gets to define "pointless?"

Obviously, political advertisement you disagree with is "pointless" and the world would be a better place without it. </sarc>

More specifically, the filtering would be informed by the biases and prejudices of those who control the gates. As it always is.

Every once and a while society can and does use common sense, it's not a Boolean flag