On 07/24/2017 04:42 PM, Polity News wrote:
Title: US Government Propaganda Outlet Funds Electronic Frontier Foundation
Will EFF be able to continue fighting the same government which it also accepts money from?
Will EFF bite the hand that feeds it?
I think that's the wrong question. A more relevant one might be, "Will the U.S. government continue to view the EFF's efforts as more destructive to the interests of U.S. government adversaries, than to the interests of the U.S. government itself?" As long as U.S. propaganda funding to EFF continues, we know the answer is yes: Factions in the State whose work is assisted by EFF tools prevail, so far, over factions inconvenienced by those tools. It is easy to view political affairs through a filter that reduces classification of players to Good vs. Evil. That cuts the workload of evaluating the incoming information by 90% of more, and enables one to "always be right" when making snap judgments, regardless of events on the ground. Passive consumers of mass market propaganda are always presented with this black/white world view. But in the world of political warfare, we are not presented with Good Guys vs. Bad Guys. Instead we get Bad Guys vs. Worse Guys, with many cases too close to call. Students of political warfare have a name for activist orgs that refuse to make common cause with their nominal "enemies" under any circumstances, regardless of the presence of vital common interests: We call them LOSERS. We see a lot of that on the CPunks list. Those who call anyone who disagrees with them on any issue Statist Pigs present as mindless reactionary servants of the State, "useful idiots" with an ideological commitment to divide the conquered and reduce organized resistance to abuses of State power. Homey don't play that. :o/