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Parent poster wasn't just talking about aggregate data; they want to see what their acquaintances are seeing. Should we also force disclosure of what petitioners are saying? What about individual phone calls regarding political matters? Party newsletters?



All political correspondence to the public ought be publicly accessible and publicly auditable.


Including phone calls and in-person communication? Many organizations hire or otherwise compel individuals to perform one-to-one communications for the purpose of furthering a political agenda.


We tried that during the 1950s with the Communist Party as the early adopter, didn’t work out too well.


If GM killed the electric car, the establishment killed the Communist Party in America.




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