• @someguy3
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    523 months ago

    Um, if it’s anonymous can they influence anything?

    • Hannes
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      903 months ago

      Anonymous usually means that they don’t want their name to show up publicly.

      There’s almost certainly knowledge of who that money is coming from at least with a couple of persons that received the funds.

      • @[email protected]
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        143 months ago

        More like they don’t want the wider public to know it was them that donated. Some folks that are extremely wealthy go to great lengths to keep their names out of people’s minds and stay out of the public eye as a matter of personal security.

    • @[email protected]
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      343 months ago

      The university knows who’s paying its bills and has agreed to keep it a secret.

      A truly anonymous donation should be double-blind to the donor AND recipient. If you don’t want credit, don’t expect influence either.

      • Zagorath
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        3 months ago

        I don’t know what you mean by

        double-blind to the donor AND recipient

        But to me that phrase kinda implies that the donor doesn’t know who they donated to. Which…no. It should be blind to the recipient. Entirely blind. But people donating can still choose where to donate to.

        • @[email protected]
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          183 months ago

          The recipient doesn’t know the donor, and the donor has no way to prove their identity to the recipient.

          • Zagorath
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            73 months ago

            Ah I see. I’m not sure that’s technically possible, but if it were, that’d be great.

            I think better would be simply outlawing any communication between a donor and recipient, if the donor wishes to officially remain anonymous. Not they “have no way” to prove their identity, but they’re not allowed to prove it—or even imply it.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            53 months ago

            the donor has no way to prove their identity to the recipient.

            Bank statement from around the same time and of similar amount?

            • @[email protected]
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              43 months ago

              Seriously if anyone can spend 100 million dollars and the IRS doesn’t know about it, we are doing something Terribly wrong.

              It will be claimed on their taxes im sure

        • @someguy3
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          23 months ago

          He might mean a certain specific group within the university. Ie the donor can donate to the University as a whole, but not say a specific branch of economics.