Aral BalkanJan 19, 2019

The #EFF: “we are the leading nonprofit defending digital privacy”

Also #EFF: “we’ve partnered with the world’s largest #SurveillanceCapitalist who makes billions by violating your privacy to train the people who will make the policies that defend your privacy – come be a Google Policy Fellow!”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/work-eff-summer-apply-be-2019-google-public-policy-fellow

This is institutional corruption at its worst.

Is anyone else sick of this bullshit?

Via @schestowitz

Work with EFF this Summer! Apply to be a 2019 Google Public Policy Fellow

Are you passionate about emerging Internet and technology policy issues? Come work with EFF this summer as a Google Public Policy Fellow! This 10-week fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to work alongside EFF’s International team on projects advancing debate on...

Show threadalcinnzJan 19, 2019

@aral I have to disagree with you.

All this is is that the EFF will work with big tech companies when their interests align, and against them when they diverge. Seems only prudent to me.

And unlike what Hollywood lobbyists would suggest, the EFF works against *big* tech at *least* as often as they work with them.

Show threadAral Balkan

@alcinnz Policy. Fellows.

It doesn’t get worse than this.

POLICY. Fellows.

#InstitutionalCorruption

Jan 19, 2019 at 9:44amWeb
Show threadalcinnzJan 19, 2019

@aral That's only on *some* policies.

I'm saying the EFF is nuanced in picking their allies. The world isn't black and white between friend and foe.

They don't disclaim this in any given campaign, that would just hurt their causes. But when you look accross them all their work it's certainly there.

Show threadAral BalkanJan 19, 2019

@alcinnz Do you see Greenpeace recruiting Exxon Mobil Policy Fellows? The American Lung Association recruiting Philip Morris Policy Fellows.

Yes, when it comes to human rights, there are those who violate it and those who protect it. Yes, there are friends and foes. Our inability to distinguish between the two is what allows them to keep doing what they do.