Well we can ask the reverse question. Would most French people expect politics to be healthier, less elitist and less insider-obsessed if politicans were allowe

Well we can ask the reverse question. Would most French people expect politics to be healthier, less elitist and less insider-obsessed if politicans were allowed to spend infinite money on campaigns, if politicals ads were allowed, etc? I certainly wouldn't expect that. > Is that really tangibly better than overt, measurable money influence from many competing sources? You're implying that any overt influence from political donations is fungibly replaced by an equivalent amount of hidden undue influence. That's not at all obvious. It's not like hidden influence doesn't exist in a system with political donations. Having the support of media corporations is important in France, but it's important in the US too. And to bring it back to the original subject, if crypto regulations were proposed in France, we wouldn't be worried that the MPs had been pre-bribed by crypto exchanges before the vote even began.