Strypey

Remember #YashaLevin's muckraking in the #Baffler on the #EFF and its supposed close ties with Big Tech corporations? Here's how real journalists cover the Silicon Valley lobbying front groups.
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/16/consumer-privacy-laws-california/

Please note, no mention of the EFF. Who were the sources for Levine's hit piece? Perhaps people from some of the organizations mentioned in this story, trying to muddy the waters?

Silicon Valley-Funded Privacy Think Tanks Fight in D.C. to Unravel State-Level Consumer Privacy Protections

Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks’ positions on a federal online privacy bill mirror the tech industry’s lobbying priorities.

Apr 17, 2019 at 2:46amWeb
Show threadStrypeyApr 17, 2019
Our freedoms to use the internet to educate, agitate, and organize, in public or in private, are under attack from multiple directions right now, including the corporate anti-privacy lobbying discussed in the #Intercept article and the EU Copyright Directive. Any #InternetFreedom we lose makes it harder to campaign effectively on any other issue, from #PeakOil and #ClimateChange, to #HumanRights violations or abuse of non-human animals.
Show threadStrypeyApr 17, 2019
We desperately need groups like #SourceWatch.org and #PRWatch.org to be carefully monitoring organizations lobbying on tech policy and helping us distinguish those that work with grassroots tech activists from the #astroturf groups that work for corporate money.