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From the EFF "about" page,
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies of freedom are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. These technologies are increasingly under attack, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense, protecting our civil liberties in the networked world. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.Learn about and lend your support to this important effort here.
EFF is a donor-funded nonprofit group of passionate people—lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — who depend on your support to continue successfully defending your digital rights. Litigation is particularly expensive; because two-thirds of our budget comes from individual donors, every contribution is critical to helping EFF fight —and win—more cases.
(Note the first right listed.)
posted by The Inside Dope @ 11/18/2005
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1 Comments:
Well, I don't think they're about "power" so to speak. But I'm very grateful that there is such an organization with people dedicated to preserving the rights and preserving the freedoms people enjoy on the net and electronic communications.
This should be something everyone supports, even if they're not a blogger or don't have a web site.
As you might expect, with something as enormous and revolutionary as the internet and it's related inventions and capabilities, corporations and government are scrambling like mad to figure out ways to tax it, control it, monopolize it, squeeze money out of it, and use it to gather personal information on users.
It's critical that there is an organization to counter and fight these efforts.
Otherwise, the internet will devolve into a for profit generic wasteland ala TV and the number of voices able to freely compete and freely speak their minds will be few.
The net should be open to all, and not dominated by corporate interests or regulated or taxed by the government.
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