Why do you have a right or need to know who funds them? Also the "origin" of its funding is Antony Fisher who founded and self funded them at first, the donors that came after came for the views it already had.
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Replying to @tristangrayedi @withorpe
Why though? The idea that the IEA significantly changes its positions because its donors is just fantasy. It was set up and initially funded as a free market think tank, and remains that....
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...We know what their posisions on issues are, we know who runs it, we know the people who do their research and are their public face. Why do their funders matter except to try and pressure them into stopping funding?
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People invest their money because they believe it is for the good of the country, for ideological reasons or for private business reasons. Knowing who funds them won't actually help you to unpack diverse motives. It will only allow politicking by low-grade smear campaigners.
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Replying to @sebinsua @tristangrayedi and
The outcome would definitely be for activists to try to imply that funders are part of a conspiracy due to some tenuous financial relationship from a funder to Soros or the Rothchilds, etc.
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It doesn't make sense to me to argue that it will improve information. It will definitely lower the tone of the discussion for the reasons I stated. Additionally rhetorically asking who funds somebody might be even more useful as a mechanism to try to connote secret conspiracy.
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Why? The internet is full of people trying to use graphs of connections to make these kinds of assertions.pic.twitter.com/hXahiXgisU
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