Re: EFF and ethical repository criteria

[Jing Luo]

On 2024-02-05 12:33, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [...]
>
>   > In Savannah's entry [1] I saw a reference to EFF's "Best Practices 
> for
>   > Online Service Providers." [2] Is it still appropriate to look to 
> EFF?
>
> Not on issues about free software.  But sometimes yes on other issues.
>
> The EFF has never veen an advocate of software freedom, so its views
> are systematically skewed towards accepting nonfree software.  We
> should not treat it as anything more than "some organization which has
> opinions".
>
> However, its statements occasionally raise issues which are worth
> thinking about.  There is no harm looking there for interesting
> questions, just don't assume their answers are wise answers.  It's
> possible that the EFF's "best practices" are wise, as far as they go,
> for avoiding other kinds of mistreatment.
>
> I will look.

xref: https://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreedomOrganizations

"EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a non-profit, non-partisan 
organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil 
liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of 
computers and the Internet."

Is this text still appropriate?

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