Finding out what the EFF was really about sucked. It was my fault for not looking in to them deeper when I decided to give them money. On the surface, though, it seemed like a great, upstanding organization. I now know the EFF was fucked from the beginning.
I'm still on their mailing list, and keep an eye on them, but they are never getting a cent from me again.
I can't find the article I had in mind that goes in to their founding. Basically the EFF came about through a group of lawyers and DC lobbyists but couched themselves as hard core digital libertarians/anarchists. So a lot of those types (like myself) bought in to them because they sounded good on paper. Turns out they are heavily involved with current big tech and support Google, et all.
These so-called "freedom" organisations only appeared on "our" side because they opposed the then conservative governments. I knew ACLU were corrupt the moment I saw them support the Climate Change movement.
It's like TERFs. They are not opposing TRAs because of "biology". They were more than happy to twist "biology" to ensure special rights and laws for women because "women can do the same as men if not better". They opposed TRAs because of their hatred of men and what they see as "men" appropriating their special rights.
2016 proved the ACLU were worthless, just like it proved the EFF were useless.
2016 was effectively the litmus test of every organization that claimed it existed to stand up for common liberties.
Every single one of them failed.
Finding out what the EFF was really about sucked. It was my fault for not looking in to them deeper when I decided to give them money. On the surface, though, it seemed like a great, upstanding organization. I now know the EFF was fucked from the beginning.
I'm still on their mailing list, and keep an eye on them, but they are never getting a cent from me again.
What was EFF about?
So here is a pre-woke Wired article https://www.wired.com/1996/02/digitel/
I can't find the article I had in mind that goes in to their founding. Basically the EFF came about through a group of lawyers and DC lobbyists but couched themselves as hard core digital libertarians/anarchists. So a lot of those types (like myself) bought in to them because they sounded good on paper. Turns out they are heavily involved with current big tech and support Google, et all.
I don't know if this site is legit but there is this https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/electronic-frontier-foundation/
Lol wow, pieces of shit.
Remind me, what happened with the EFF in 2016?
The same thing that happned to ACLU. They stopped caring about even pretended to defend anything even remotely right wing.
Their website describes them as;
Here's their utterly tepid resonse to silicon valley CEO's deleting the President of the United States off the face of the internet;
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/eff-response-social-media-companies-decision-block-president-trumps-accounts
They called for recalls because they thought a lot of votes were fabricated. Note they did not do this in 2020.
Spez: also this https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine
These so-called "freedom" organisations only appeared on "our" side because they opposed the then conservative governments. I knew ACLU were corrupt the moment I saw them support the Climate Change movement.
It's like TERFs. They are not opposing TRAs because of "biology". They were more than happy to twist "biology" to ensure special rights and laws for women because "women can do the same as men if not better". They opposed TRAs because of their hatred of men and what they see as "men" appropriating their special rights.
Indeed. They masked it for decades, post Trump victory, the mask is off and it's never going back on.
1920: American Civil Liberties Union
2020: Anti-Civil Liberties Union
Same organization.