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> Ban all monetary donations to politicians. All of them, no more advertisements. Who is to decide what counts as "political" content (and is thereby banned) a
by argumentum 13y ago
> Ban all monetary donations to politicians. All of them, no more advertisements.
Who is to decide what counts as "political" content (and is thereby banned) and what is acceptable?
Who is to decide what counts as "advertising" and what constitutes art or journalism?
Who is to decide what constitutes "clear answers", what questions (and therefore opinions) are "acceptable"?
What you propose is not merely "very hard to get right", it's impossible. It's not just "easy to get wrong", it's inevitable that we will get it wrong.
It's inevitable that with such a system, unpopular opinions will be suppressed. Even worse, the more unpopular an opinion, the more likely it will be suppressed. Not only will we lose the freedom of speech (if that matters to you at all), we will lose freedom of inquiry which depends more than anything else on no idea being off the table, and everything be subjected to debate.
What you describe is a scary, scary world, and one in which I would prefer to never live in.
- TrainedMonkey 13y ago"What you describe is a scary, scary world, and one in which I would prefer to never live in." You have very good points that I do not have answer to (possibly because there is none in general). I am not trying to argue that idea I proposed is correct or right. I just listened to the talk linked in [0] and think that money raising should go. How it goes is another question entirely.