The EFF started, 30 years ago today, with the right idea, defending speech on the then-nascent net. I gave them $5000 at startup, but ultimately they sold us out to the big tech companies. Now we need a new EFF to reign in the original EFF.#
I blogged about my first break with the EFF in 2005. Subsequently I objected to how they defended podcasting from a patent troll, and ultimately the effort to give control of the web to Google, that was the absolute last straw. #
They are no longer defending electronic freedom, they are protecting the rich monopolists. Ugh. #
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