We are #1

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I've already said forget regulating text. This is text.

Might have some impact on the promiscuous use of YouTube links, though....

Look, I'm not exactly serious here. I'm just wishing I could wave a magic wand and make all campaign video go away. Because it IS awful, and it's cost is what gives candidates a NEED for all that funding, with the corruption of democracy that comes with that.

Just think of it as 'thinkiing outside the box.'

I'd like to see this in the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_advertising

In the EU, many countries do not permit paid-for TV or radio advertising for fear that wealthy groups will gain control of airtime making fair play impossible and distort the political debate in the process. In both the United Kingdom and Ireland, paid advertisements are forbidden, though political parties are allowed a small number of party political broadcasts in the run up to election time. The United States has a very free market for broadcast political messaging. Canada allows paid-for political broadcasts but requires equitable access to the airwaves.[1] Campaigns can include several different mediums (depending on local law). The time span over which political campaign advertising is possible varies greatly from country to country, with campaigns in the United States lasting a year or more to places like the UK and Ireland where advertising is restricted by law to just a short period of weeks before the election.