> John Legere firmly believes that he fights for the user

I wish you were being sarcastic. John is, at heart, a salesman - a mild con artist. He is putting on an act. all he cares about is making more money for tmobile - everything else is an act.

> But he's asking now because to him they are acting out of character

EFF is exactly acting in character. So is Legere - as someone whose job it is to manipulate people into seeing tmobiles aggressive business tactics in the most positive light possible.

Legere is attacking EFF in this way because he knows that most people are very responsive to this kind of emotionalism - he is hoping to discredit EFF in the eyes of his loyal tmobile-loving social-network keyboard warriors.

> they'd inform T-Mobile more quietly

tmobile KNOWS they are throttling data! Or limiting bandwidth. Everyone involved already knows this! Legere only squabbles over semantics, otherwise he is bragging about this throttling.

> Are they being paid to? If they fought for the consumers, why would they attack such a consumer friendly company such as T-Mobile?

That is exactly the kind of nonsense which Legere is hoping people will think.