Foreign political funding should be banned everywhere by default. It makes no sense to let foreign interests muck about in your domestic policy.
I agree in principle, but in practice it’s tricky. You must have courts that are strong enough to throw out election results if foreign interference can be proven. This has recently happened in Romania, but there are also many examples in which these laws were meaningless. The US is the obvious case where the 2016 election result should have been thrown out, but nothing happened. For the Brexit vote I think some pretty meaningless fines were handed out.
Another question is what should happen with foreign interference that is not financial in nature. For instance, Musk speaking at AFD, or the Meta algorithms pushing political content.
Both EU and UK should do the same.
This is the best preventative measure they can do for now. Musk and other actors can dump massive amounts of money into elections to sway them and many of these democracies haven’t been challenged from outside like this before.
This should be banned everywhere by default.
Completely fucked the USA, and it’ll do the same anywhere else it’s not explicitly made illegal.
Good on ya fellas. Don’t allow our Orange Idiot fuck with you.
I don’t think tanks, missiles and boots on the ground cares too much about elections! Trump is a facist and he’ll use the American empire military and economic force to bend other nations to his will!
If he decides to go to war on multiple fronts with no one backing him up, I don’t think it will go well for him.
There’s always russia and Isreal.
They’re both a little busy at the moment. I don’t think they have people to send to Greenland and Panama.
Foreign and corporate. Anything over $2000 from an entity.
They also should block Xitter altogether.
Everyone should.
We need this in Canada