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EFF Losing the Plot

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2024

Like the Linux Foundation and OSI, the EFF has succumbed to corporate influence and is derailing itself (along with its original mission).

EFF last year: EFF Takes Money From US Nazis to Speak for Prostitutes and Frame Privacy (or Net Liability) as a Sex Issue

Earlier today: (is privacy not for everybody?)

EFF months ago:

The very latest from EFF (as of today) is the same thing. They're doubling down:

As we noted hours ago, the second from the bottom is promotion of Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Office. They don't even mention OpenDocument Format (ODF). It's really, really bad.

They associate equality with proprietary spyware of Microsoft and they're promoting the training of people to spread it like a drug. Excel (OOXML) gets mentioned, so as an associate put things, "it is important to remind that 1) no one, not even Microsoft, uses it. 2) there is a true universal format, ODF."

So EFF is basically promoting monopolies instead of fighting monopolies. Heck, the EFF is funded by monopolies and lies for them.

But it gets even worse, as EFF does politics and then calls "Victory!" Facebook's surrender to EFF pressure, saying that Hamas-like slogans are OK.

October 7 is Monday. Stay classy, EFF.

Next year we'll have much bigger stories to tell about the EFF. █