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What government funding does the EFF take in?
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/electronic-frontier-foundation-eff/
Oh rly? Influence Watch, from the CRC?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Research_Center
I didn't know that. interesting for sure though.
so what benefit would the eff gain by going against the hands that feed it? and the detriments?
So first, even here we see foundation money and big tech, not government.
Facebook, Google, etc mostly love net neutrality, tolerate encryption, anf see utility in anonymous internet access, mostly because these things don't interfere with their core advertising businesses, and generally have helped them. I didn't see Comcast and others in the ISP oligopoly on that list, probably because they would not benefit from net neutrality, encryption, and privacy for obvious reasons.
The EFF advocates for particular civil libertarian policies, always has. That does attract certain donors, but not others. They have plenty of diverse and grassroots support too. One day they may have to choose between their corpo donors and their values, but I have yet to see them abandon principles.