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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 20:05:33 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   Ok, so the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) have just asked me, as a "Dear Supporter of Digital Freedom" (I've supported the organisation for a couple decades), to complete a community survey... which uses Microsoft Forms. Are they serious?! What a slap in the face. It's actually gut-wrenching. That's their credibility gone. I'm really disappointed.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 20:05:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     @lightweight Times like this it’s usually a good idea to follow the money but a quick check turned up that the EFF apparently doesn’t disclose its corporate donors. That’s actually quite shocking. Privacy is a human right – it is not a right for organisations and corporations to shirk transparency.

     https://www.eff.org/uk/pages/note-our-donors

     #eff #donors #funding

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 20:05:23 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     Oh dear. I've had a response from the EFF, and they've defended their choice, saying that 'they don't have the resources' to use a more values-compatible (my term) tool for the job. They need to remember that 'expedience is the absence of principle.' I've written a response their attitude undermines their very purpose for existence, but going to sit on it a bit. I'm very disappointed in the EFF - if *any* organisation on the planet needs to grasp this, it's them. Otherwise, they're a failure.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Bø!rge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 20:31:28 JST Bø!rge

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @aral @lightweight Does @eff check it's interactions here on fedi? If so I'd like you to see above and reply here, thanks.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 20:32:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bø!rge
     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @forteller @lightweight @eff Me too.