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  • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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    14 days ago

    There were and still are.

    You, as an individual, right now, have a limit on how much money you can donate to a political campaign.

    An organization is able to bypass that by spending that money directly in support of the campaign, but not directly giving it to them. Thus granting the organization’s owners more political power than they had as an individual.

    • crashfrog@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      No; the First Amendment bars any government regulation on political speech.

      An organization is able to bypass that by spending that money directly in support of the campaign, but not directly giving it to them

      There have never been individual limits on indirect political support for issues or candidates because the First Amendment bars government regulation of your political speech.