[kennywinker]

What’s the contradiction?

Speech is free, as in part of freedom, so speech should not be regulated by the government.

Spending money to amplify speech is not a right or a freedom, it should be heavily regulated.

> That said, I don't think that pac spending are that big of a problem

Look at aipac, there are only a handful of politicians who don’t take their money (or how every you want to phrase pac money being spent on you “independently”). And yet something like 60% of americans have an unfavorable view of israel. If those politicans taking aipac money take the wrong position on israel, that money disappears, and goes to an opponent of theirs. That’s just lobbying. Pac money is lobbying.