> financial privacy is an important part of having a functioning democracy

No, I don't think it is. Perhaps privacy for speech and voting are.

Ylpertnodi 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

>> financial privacy is an important part of having a functioning democracy

>No, I don't think it is. Perhaps privacy for speech and voting are.

Cash works for financial privacy, and functioning democracies.

realo 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Heinous speech is allowed in the USA but is totally illegal in Canada.

I live in Canada. Anonymous heinous speech? No thank you. Go away.

How is privacy for voting different than privacy for funding the candidate?

	▲	vkou 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		One man one vote is a little different from one dollar one word, or one dollar one vote. In most civilized countries you have privacy in the voting booth (because without it, buying votes becomes trivial), but no privacy in financing campaigns. Some of those countries even have rules about when campaigns can and cannot run, because there are benefits to living in a society that's not actively bombarded by polarizing political screeching 24/7. It does some to cut down the influence of dollars in politics. I guess it makes people in the advertising business, and people looking to buy political influence very unhappy.