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A chronic problem with nonprofits and advocacy orgs is that they can become so hyper-focused on the world as viewed through the narrow lens of their mission — noble though the mission may be — that they start to lose context, perspective, and common sense. And then they start doing stupid crap, stepping on fingers and walking into walls.

I think this has happened to the @eff.
mastodon.social/@eff/113801429

MastodonElectronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social)By the time we shared this statement, the conversation had understandably shifted toward Meta's dangerous new content policy. It was a mistake to project good faith onto the company, which quickly showed it was not deserving of it. For a full analysis, see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free
Cassandrich

@inthehands @eff That's a very generous interpretation. I think they have a few cryptofash insiders or influential donors they're taking direction from.

@dalias @eff

Oh, I’m highly confident that they always have awful people trying to whisper garbage in their ear. What I described in my post is how those voices get in the door; a well-anchored organization is resilient to that exposure. And a poorly anchored org…well, it lets them take over — as with the ADL for example.

@inthehands @eff A lot of this is a holdover from old times when there were arguably 2+ legitimate political sides and libertarianism hadn't been debunked as a front for fascism.

Now there are clearly only two sides: fascism and antifa(scism).