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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by octoberfranklin on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:37PM (#25181779)
> If a corporation wants to run a media campaign on social issues

Well the problem is that "running media campaigns" is the vast majority of what political donations are spent on. All the other stuff (campaign salaries, etc) fits easily into any candidate's totally-aboveboard-donations revenue account.

Not saying I approve of the current system; just that this is not a problem with an easy fix.

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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided by mantas on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:55AM (#25184201)
But that campaign cannot feature a party or politician. It can just coincidentally support same cause as party X.

Of course it's not a 100% fix. But it's a step in a correct direction.

edit: thinking more, it may be complicated in US where X always means party A and Y always means party B. Here we've a bunch of overlapping parties and there're multiple parties (or factions) behind pretty much any issue from any angle.

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