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If you see any issue and you're wondering why EFF hasn't spoken up about it:
1. It is not an EFF issue at all.
2. You just missed the blog post and/or press quotes.
3. We have had six meetings about it and now ten people are simultaneously working on a messy blog post trying to capture the nuance of our position.
@evacide
4. Google isn't paying you to lobby about it.
@brettglass If Google has been controlling what I do and do not work on at EFF for the last 15 years, they are doing it via secret mind control. If I wanted to lobby for Google, I would do it by working for Google and making a much higher salary.
@evacide Nope; they're simply doing it by paying you. EFF is one of Google's many shill organizations, as documented in court records.
@brettglass Big if true. What percentage of EFF's budget would have to be made up of donations from Google to qualify us as "Google shills?"
@evacide As we both know, EFF won't disclose the full amount of "dark money" it receives from Google. But the direct funding, "cy pres" money, in-kind contributions, and direct and indirect support of staff and directors is already quite substantial. EFF is a Google shill.
@brettglass So, what percentage of EFF's budget would have to be donated by Google in order to turn the org into a Google shill? What much is "quite substantial?" Like, 60% of the budget? 50% of the budget? 30% of the budget? EFF's annual reports and financial statements are readily available on the website right here: https://www.eff.org/about/annual-reports-and-financials
@evacide sorry for the necro-reply...
For anyone stumbling upon this exchange later not only can you read the reports linked by evacide but if that's too much work, the EFF is a 501(c) non–profit that has strict reporting requirements and if these unsubstantiated claims are credible, one should absolutely publish the scoop. The EFF has powerful detractors and would love to bury them.
Support the EFF as they work in public interest instead of engaging in manufactured sanctimonious purity tests!