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Your interpretation of corruption may not be equal to its lawful meaning. If you have a problem with the donations to for example Cuomo, than you can lobby for change (e.g. by donating to a politician who shares your view).

Again, there is no reason for violating people's rights even when they can be _accused_ of wrongdoing. It is for courts to decide.




This is exactly the reason this question is difficult, with a strong case on both sides.

There are laws. Those laws have intent. Then, there is the actual behavior of individuals and corporations in practice. Loopholes, perhaps intentionally left open. There is a law limiting corporate donations. There is a practice for circumventing it. Without reveals like this, it looks like lots of private individuals donated money but in reality, a corporation effectively got around the legal restriction placed on it.

Those restrictions are there to prevent auctioning off legislation and policy. This is no joke.

These are not pictures of your wife in lingerie. This is squarely in the public interest. It's in the pubic interest to have the law updated so that this will be illegal, so that courts can do something about it.


Can you see the irony in your comment? "If you'd like to change a certain behaviour, you should indulge in that same behaviour as much as you can."

How do you fix a broken process, if the only way to do it is going through the same broken process?


Getting a political message out there costs money, just as everything else - small parties can't even afford to mailshot the electorate in order to identify their beliefs.

Promoting an anti-donation message directly benefits Cuomo and the parties of big business and finance. Their backers are not going to hear that message, and their opponents' backers are more likely to act on it.


That's not the only way. You can vote for the politician who shares your views. You still have democracy in America, you can still vote. But somehow most Americans always vote for politicians who support those donations.


One can only vote for a politician who is running for office, so if no viable candidates share one's views, one is out of luck.


That was intended. We all know that there are problems with the balance of influence. But that does not excuse the publishings.


> Your interpretation of corruption may not be equal to its lawful meaning

Corruption has been legalized thanks to... corruption.

You see the problem ? When the law is written by lobbyists, lawful does not bear anymore any meaning.


This may not be the legal definition of corruption, but there's also no legal right being violated here.


A human framed lawful meaning is not the same as a morally correct meaning. What your essentially saying is that if we want to end corruption then we need to partake in corruption ourselves (bribe a politician for change).

This doesn't make things better.


I don't have $5k of disposable income to give to a political candidate willy-nilly. Sony's execs apparently do. That puts them at an advantage in our supposedly-democratic system.


First you have to get it into a court.

Compare the recent rise of public video documenting US police shootings. There's no way the alleged wrongdoing would be seriously investigated if there wasn't video widely available to the public.




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