What if a group of people get together and pay to publish it as a collective?

Sounds like a corporation to me. What if the book is political? Now you’ve got a corporation throwing money at political speech. Can’t have that.

The problem with the OP comic like most such comics is that it’s demonizing the acknowledgement of nuance and considering arguments to have merit when they do. It can be simultaneously true that campaign finance laws serve a valid purpose for protecting democracy from regulatory capture, and that they risk enabling oppressive violations of free expression. There is nothing wrong with realizing this, people should be thinking things through enough to become conflicted about them.