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Re:EFF is leaving X by AnthonyMouse on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:50PM (#47712636)
> EFF is, politically, left wing.

EFF is more like classical liberal. They generally oppose regulation of speech/tech and oppressive laws like DMCA 1201 (anti-circumvention) but promote things in the nature of antitrust like right-to-repair. Everything is required to be crammed into a box now so that often gets called "left" because the tech companies (also called "left") have found it more effective to pay off the incumbents in GOP-controlled states when they don't like right-to-repair laws, although Hollywood ("left" again) are traditionally the ones pressuring Democrats to sustain the horrible anti-circumvention rule when they're in power.

It turns out trying to fit everything into one of two boxes is pretty unscientific.

Re:EFF is leaving X by empressplay on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:26PM (#47713236)
> EFF is more like classical liberal.

I mean, they were, but that no longer appears to be the case.

Re:EFF is leaving X by cbsmith on Friday April 10, 2026 @01:03AM (#47713837)
Appears being the operative word.