Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom

Sean Lynch seanl at literati.org
Wed Jan 6 14:32:07 PST 2016


These occurred five years apart, and only the second one involved an actual
court case. I don't think it's a reasonable comparison.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:21 PM Ryan Carboni <ryacko at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-lieberman-got-amazon-to-drop-wikileaks
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for Internet
> freedom of speech by defending court cases, said the axing certainly
> doesn't violate the First Amendment. But it is, according to senior staff
> attorney Kevin Bankston, "disappointing."
>
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/sheriffs-threats-against-credit-card-companies-violate-first-amendment
>
> As we wrote about last month, we submitted an amicus brief to the Seventh
> Circuit arguing that government officials such as Sheriff Dart may not use
> their positions of authority to coerce companies with express or implied
> threats of legal liability into taking actions that censor speech—whether
> online or offline.
>
>
>
>
> As we all know, escort services are important, not Wikileaks, whose
> founder makes use of the CIA's escort service with expected results.
>
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