FEC listings are public records, but audiences and context matter a lot. I've struggled to find a balance with this, calling attention to tech companies' political giving by citing FEC materials that contain employee names and (sometimes) home addresses. It's tricky.
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Maybe if private donations become notorious and odious enough we can finally move to a publicly financed political system.
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I have very mixed feelings here. For reasons I don’t fully understand or agree with, we made campaign contributions a public act. The act of giving support is tied to the act of proclaiming support. Is that sensible? I don’t know, but it seems to have been a deliberate policy.
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Structuring tbings this way reconciles poorly with the secret balll, also a deliberate feature of the system.
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Hypothetical: What if the donations were given after donors saw ads tailored to them using somewhat illegal ways, a la Cambridge Analytics? Who claims the high ground then?
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This is slicing it awfully thin. It's important to call out who's funding terrible policies, unless it's in an easy-to-retweet graphic? You've linked to lists of tech PAC donors to encourage their coworkers to shine a light. This is different because... it's a jpg?
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The shareability makes a difference! An image like that can go viral in a way a linked FEC filing will not. That is why it was created.
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"There is a difference between public and publicized."
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I have mixed feelings on it, but I think it comes down to a matter of locality. It's not outside of the norm to say boycott businesses owned by those individuals if you're Hispanic at this point.
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Not at all. I think calling for a boycott of named businesses is completely legit and warranted by circumstances. My problem is with the made-to-be-retweeted image with the full names on it.
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It is legal in most states to discriminate against someone for their political views, including hiring and firing. I fear that's the next step in this process.
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