Comments on: Social media as public pillory for campaign donations https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/08/campaign-finance-disclosure-and-the-social-media-pillory/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:11:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: SPO https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/08/campaign-finance-disclosure-and-the-social-media-pillory/comment-page-1/#comment-355703 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:11:05 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73516#comment-355703 In the law, people are presumed to intend the natural and logical consequences of their deliberate actions. Castro therefore can easily be considered morally culpable for the natural consequences here–harassment and reducing donations to Trump 2020 (talk about interference with our democracy).

On a broader scale, this sort of activity presents a structural threat to our democracy. Where the power of government is married up to mob rule, the “division of labor” so to speak insulates members of the government from any sort of judicial accountability. If, for example, one of the children of these people is bullied at school, Castro can say, as he has, that the info was public etc. (He has already made his vice into a virtue by taking that exact thing.)

]]> By: cc https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/08/campaign-finance-disclosure-and-the-social-media-pillory/comment-page-1/#comment-355699 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:17:14 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73516#comment-355699 My solution to this is a double-blind system. You can give as much as you want to any candidate but the candidate themselves (as well as their opponents) cannot see who gave what. Complete free speech, but it eliminates corruption. For example, we often see businesses give to both candidates–do they favor both? That would make no sense. No, they want to curry favor with both. The result of this method would be a huge decrease in crony capitalism, special favors, and outright (but sneaky) bribery.

]]>