At 07:40 PM 9/2/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote:
what *constructive* alternative to EFF do you propose? if you have none, please shut up.
I think any organization that would apply political pressure rather than bow to it would be an alternative. I think an organization in touch enough with its own policy to prevent its staff and board from making embarassing big brother type proposals to curtail the ability of any of us to post without attributation would be an alternative. I think an organization without the internal conflict and strife that has clearly marred EFF in past and made it a laughable attempt at cohesive political persuasion would be an alternative. I think an organization that had official policies on the core issues which it proposes to influence would be an alternative.
In short, an organization that had even one of the needed elements of legislative influence. (Cohesive, directed, persistent, and uncompromising).
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