Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook...
by specialist on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:32AM
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#1 There's a variety of goofy primary systems. One could argue that approval voting is the logical conclusion of top-two or jungle primaries.
#3 Public financing reforms have thus far been a bottom-up effort.
As for #2, we'll see. The backlash to social media is pretty intense. There's an opportunity in there some where.
The way it was justified was that there's a natural limitation on the amount of spectrum, so the government has an interest in ensuring that not all channels on that spectrum are Fox News.
The spectrum gets more irrelevant by the day as more TV moves to cable/Internet, and people in general get their news from the likes of Facebook instead of TV. There's no natural limitation on the number of channels on cable or Internet, so the government trying to police speech there would be ruled unconstitutional.
Your #1 suggestion is doable, but would require something just short of a successful revolution to pull off. #3 likewise, you'd need a constitutional amendment due to Citizens United.