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Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.

Gavin

@eff If you had just arrived on Earth you may be forgiven for giving Meta the benefit of the doubt.

It looks deeply foolish now though. They are beyond redemption.

@gavin57 @eff I don't think the EFF here is giving them the benefit of the doubt. I think that their goals are not necessarily aligned against for-profit corporations, or capitalism as a whole. Instead, they seem to be focused on civil liberties as granted from the government.

eff.org/about/history#main-con

Obviously, would be happy to be corrected. Their website, unlike many other non-profits, does not have to-the-point stuff like mission or value statements. The closest thing is what I linked.

Electronic Frontier Foundation · A History of Protecting Freedom Where Law and Technology CollideThe Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in July of 1990 in response to a basic threat to speech and privacy. The United States Secret Service conducted a series of raids tracking the distribution of a document illegally copied from a BellSouth computer that described how the emergency 911...