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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I think there are at least two questions here. One is whether we should encourage a norm where powerful people single out ordinary people (I think absolutely not). The other is, given it’s now so easy to single people out, should we rethink making donations public? (Harder)
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A particularly vexing aspect of this when I was fundraising was hearing from people who were victims of stalking, and could not contribute to candidates for fear of being found. Some were afraid to register to vote. And then there is the use of those lists for political spam…
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