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Summary: The EFF as a lobbying arm of billionaires^* is a new kind of development; it has gotten a lot worse since one co-founder died and another got ousted

THIS MORNING we mentioned why the Electronic Frontier Foundation deserves to be called "Microsoft Enterprise" Frontier Foundation (MEFF), based on a source that gave us a headsup/scoop. Unless this can be refuted or disproved, it seems safe to assert that today's EFF sends a lot of its data and/or communications to Microsoft and hence to the US government (which it's supposed to confront in court). Who is responsible for this travesty? That's a betrayal or at best abandonment of many EFF supporters (sponsors) of the past few decades. Where's the commitment? What happened to principles?

"It pays its Executive Director over $300,000 per year (quite a lot for an organisation that loses millions of dollars per year, partly due to poor leadership after many years of success stories)."We can only encourage people not to give any more money to the EFF, seeing that it gets handouts from tech monopolies and oligarchs, who use the EFF as a lobbying arm of their own. ⬆ _____________ ^* The latest available IRS filing says [PDF] that the EFF has swung into losses for the first time in at least a decade and has been losing money for two years in a row, but it still has about 40 million dollars in the bank. It lives off its past goodwill and digests the reserves of cash -- not a sustainable strategy at all. It pays its Executive Director over $300,000 per year (quite a lot for an organisation that loses millions of dollars per year, partly due to poor leadership after many years of success stories).