No company that receives any amount of foreign funding, financing or is partially-owned by international players, including but not limited to stockholders, should be allowed to fund any electoral American campaign. Just because the money is harder to track with corporations doesn’t mean that fact can allow foreigners holding said corporation’s stock to participate in our elections. Therefore, every corporation should be mandated to file a complete list of all of its owners (shareholders) and those to whom it is indebted, including the names of the participants in any LLC which might hold ownership to ensure our elections are being funded only by American citizens. If it is too difficult or cumbersome for a corporation to identify each of its owners, then it must bow out of campaign funding.
The choice is to supply all names or not participating in election financing. The choice is not that a corporation can fund campaigns because it’s difficult to find out who exactly owns the corporation. It is my understanding that Twitter’s 2nd largest owner is Saudi Arabi. Therefore, it would be foreign interference with our American elections if Twitter donated directly or indirectly to any campaign. In fact, one would imagine that all major publicly traded tech companies have international stockholders and therefore are ineligible to donate to campaigns directly or indirectly. Foreign interference with American political campaigns is illegal. Further, Corporations are not people. Corporations do not deserve the same rights to free speech as American Citizens. I do not support the Supreme Court’s decision in United Citizens. It is dangerous to the integrity of a fair American election process.
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