Thread by @yashalevine

In @thebafflermag: My recovered history of the EFF, America’s oldest and most influential internet business lobby—an organization that has played a pivotal role in shaping the commercial internet as we know it.

surveillancevalley.com/blog/all-eff-u…

Here's the direct link: thebaffler.com/salvos/all-eff…

#AmericaIsAlreadyGreat

Notice how EFF went AWOL during the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal? "Over the past years, EFF has taken millions in funds from Google and Facebook...Hell, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s foundation gave EFF at least $1.2 million."

Musicians (including Paul McCartney) overwhelmingly supported passing stronger Internet copyright protection in EU. Google-funded astroturf groups were against it. Guess which side EFF was on?

bbc.com/news/amp/techn…

Here is EFF's leading anti-copyright propagandist, Cory:

This is really gross: Vint Cerf, whose job at Google today is to do high level political lobbying, does not identify himself as a Google executive in this letter to the EU (hosted on, you guessed it, @EFF's servers). He calls himself an "Internet Pioneer."
eff.org/files/2018/06/…