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[-] hannesh93@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Should it? I get that political parties should report donors - but for nonprofits and other institutions I feel it's not that necessary since they are directly investing that money in projects (that the donor may choose - but if that's not the case then that investment isn't happening) - for political parties and politicians it can be seen as a bribe as the things they invest in usually don't have a direct return of investment.

And there should be rules and regulations making sure that that donation is not ending up in some kind of contract for the company of the donor but that whatever that investment is funding has a transparent process

Where do we draw the line? Should donors to libraries be made public even if that person wants to remain anonymous but fund an expansion? Should donors to non-profits be made public?

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 4 weeks ago

Can you get through a working day without a burning unneeded desire to regulate yet another thing that shouldn't be regulated?

The amount of stuff governments are already regulating is, like, 5000% of what actually should be regulated. The remaining stuff can get by with the 20% of the existing regulation. And don't even begin to play the game of regulating private education into shape when what you need is a working public one.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Depends where you are. If youre of the 90% of US americans here in Lemmy, you regulate too less and too reactionary.

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 3 weeks ago

Let's just say my home country is transitioning away from authoritarian and into dictatorship.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 weeks ago

You won't win this one here. Lemmy is disappointingly facebook-like in terms of their seemingly endless desire to be told what to do every step of their lives.

I realise the numbers are sort of made up, but in general I fully agree. I do sometimes think that politicians regulate for the sake of it, as if justifying their existence.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

Here's the issue. Lemmy users are very against people losing control of their lives in general, contrary to what you imply. Most people here are against people losing control. The issue is, it's not only the government that can do this. Corporations, businesses, and other entities can take it away too. We need the government to regulate these things to protect people. I don't care to protect businesses. People should be free to do damn near anything they want as long as it doesn't hurt others. A company/their employer should not be able to prevent them from doing what they want.

You don't want freedom. You want another kind of control over you.

[-] within_epsilon@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

I find it eloquently said that oppressors can be public and private. People seem keen to trade public for private oppression. Humanity deserves less oppression of all forms.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

Lemmy is disappointingly facebook-like in terms of their seemingly endless desire to be told what to do every step of their lives.

I would be surprised if that was actually the case. most of the visitors are here because they got fed up with reddit's decisions.

What makes you think that way?

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

I think there are three groups. There's the tankies that got deplatformed and created Lemmy to have a platform with no corporate owner. There's the reddit refugees who wanted to get away from corporate controlled social media. Finally, there's assholes who got deplatformed because they're assholes. They aren't philosophically in favor of the freedom of the fediverse, just that it gives them a means to keep being bad people that no one else allows.

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