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What about donations to Wikileaks? Or maybe even the ACLU. I'm not convinced the EFF has been a consistent critic of the administration. The problem is organizations that have a partisan bias which makes their advocacy suspect.


They are not and should not be a consistent critic of any administration. I see them as a non-partisan voice of the people for and against policies which otherwise are without a voice. When the administration issues a call against bad patents, the EFF supports and promotes that call When the administration issues a call to silence all discussion of warrantless wiretapping they denounce that call.

If they were entirely partisan or entirely anti-government they'd be a lot less effectual. By being issue-specific and in helping the government properly codify their own laws in addition to just slamming them for bad laws the EFF is a much more powerful and respectable entity worthy of our support.




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