On Wednesday 13. December 2017 11.35.47 Mirko Boehm wrote:
I think that more generally, this distinction makes no sense in the first place. Why is support from some organization better than support from a company?
Not being involved in formulating this campaign, I can only speculate that it might be due to companies being perceived as having a reason to support the campaign if they stand to benefit from it, as opposed to society in general or other people benefiting if another kind of organisation supports it.
That said, such restrictions have not stopped corporations from incubating their own non-profit or "interest" organisations for lobbying purposes, with one coming to mind almost immediately from recent times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairSearch
So, maybe letting companies support campaigns is good for transparency, even if it might give an impression of self-interest amongst those companies.
Paul