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Similar in the UK - set up that way to stop money being able to buy elections. Overall, election spending has been very strictly controlled. One of the proble
by DrScientist 7y ago
Similar in the UK - set up that way to stop money being able to buy elections.
Overall, election spending has been very strictly controlled.
One of the problems is recently people have being getting around this with hard to trace online campaigns - using "national funding" and effectively locally targeted online campaigns.
I'd like to see people being properly sanctioned for breaking the rules. In my view there are few things more serious than trying to subvert democracy. It shouldn't be normalized like it is in the US.
- orbifold 7y agoI agree, basically it should either not be allowed or strictly controlled how to advertise politics online. Targeted political advertisement should be banned completely. Then there is twitter, which also basically serves as a direct marketing channel for political parties. In Germany this is a huge problem especially with the AFD, they can publish lots of nonsense there, more or less unchallenged by facts or reason.