The accepted practice, as your inbox can attest, is to turn on all the tracking for everything all the time. That means the tech giants have unparalleled visibility into the fundraising, support base, and campaign strategy of any politician threatening to regulate them.
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These same companies are conduits for (I will hazard) the majority of campaign ad spending. I'm sure a Facebook advertiser boycott doesn't sting so much when you're about to get hundreds of millions of dollars from every politician in America, including the ones grandstanding
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These companies have enmeshed themselves so thoroughly in our democracy and political system that uprooting them is going to take an exceptional amount of work. It goes far beyond the normal kind of regulatory capture. They are essential and ungovernable tools for modern politics
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People complain to me when they get spammed after donating to the Great Slate or the State Slate. But I dig through every setting I can to turn tracking off. I bet I'm the only ActBlue user that has even turned off these sliders. We need to break the back of this corrupt system
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It's great for Elizabeth Warren, for example, to announce she won't take donations from Facebook, but she's also given Facebook a list of every one of her supporters just in the course using the standard campaign fundraising tools. And of course, she pays them. It's a problem.
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