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Idea: get together some money, buy data of 100 of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Publish everything found, see if the laws are then changed...

• CameronNemo 5y ago
  They did that, twice. Panama and Pandora papers (2016, 2021). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers
• darkwizard42 5y ago
  A good start, but their profiles are probably incredibly well scrubbed (or whatever is out there is already mitigated). Instead, collect it on every Congressperson and then see how fast things change. Most politicians don't have the means to scrub their backgrounds like multi-million dollar PR-vulnerable CEOs.
  • saganus 5y ago
    Seems more likely that those same Congresspersons (Congresspeople?) will try to stomp you out of existence, before making any changes to the law. I don't imagine people with such amount of power and connections to just roll over because "they caught us with the hand in the cookie jar!"
  • 0des 5y ago
    > A good start, but their profiles are probably incredibly well scrubbed (or whatever is out there is already mitigated). I have serious doubts about this.
  • freddie_mercury 5y ago
    Congresspeople are also all multimillionaires who are PR vulnerable. As of 2011, the average Senator had a net worth of $14 million and the average Representative had a net worth of $6.5 million. Presumably it has only gone up in the decade since, given the long bull market in everything. https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_and_Representatives https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_...
• wmf 5y ago
  It's probably faster to buy data on members of Congress. I assume that's where things likt the Video Privacy Protection Act came from.