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[–] [email protected] 294 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'd be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.

Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If anyone is aware of the source, it's not anonymous, it's undisclosed.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

Agreed, literal anonymous, way cool. Undisclosed, much less so.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

The tweet speaks of "dark money". I like that term better. It feels worse

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I work for a nonprofit and “anonymous donor” definitely means “c-suite folks know who it came from”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

So in this context, it's always doublespeak?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This exactly. If you really want to stay anonymous then use a middleman and do it anonymous to the recipient as well.

Everyone involved with the institution, students, parents who pay tuition, teachers, authorities who financially support the institution (...) have a right to know in whose pocket they are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

do like onion routing, use two middlemen, i guess you'd literally use locks, sorta like that encryption analogy