Federal Citizen @adidal@cdstm.ch

I agree with them that #bigtech has serious problems. But I think #gafam should disappear completely, while they seem to just want to add some duct-tape privacy laws to a fundamentally broken system.

I think it's time we stop pretending it's going to be okay if we donate for someone else to defend our rights. We need a large scale emancipation from surveillance-based business models, and a #decentralised internet will make it harder for new actors to fill the shoes of the old tyrants

Although they have some articles which praise interoperability, they rarely go in-depth on what the #fediverse or #decentralised internet means. How it puts the power in the people's hands. How can we fund it. How can it be made sustainable. God forbid they ever mention that it's possible to run your server at home.

They've even said good things about #apple, claiming they can lead the way to users' rights on mobile devices. This is completely at odds with what apple actually do.

I've read this highly critical article talking about the #eff https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine

While there are a lot of claims concerning EFF's funding that I haven't managed to cross-verify, the annual reports (https://www.eff.org/about/annual-reports-and-financials) paint an organisation that is clearly not grassroots with their 30$ million assets in 2019.

But what bothers me more is the things they leave out of most of their communication and stated goals. They only occasionally talk about free software and empowering the user.

once again i am being persecuted for my monsterfucker beliefs