The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit group founded in 1990 by Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, and John Perry Barlow to defend civil liberties in the digital world.
Status: Headquartered in San Francisco, the EFF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a staff of approximately 125 (as of 2025) and over 40,000 members, often described as the “online equivalent of the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Mission: The EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.
Key Activities: The organization fights illegal surveillance, defends free speech online, challenges restrictive copyright laws, and develops privacy-enhancing tools like Privacy Badger and Certbot.
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Looks like classic infiltrate–takeover–invert the org 180 degrees. Virtually every institution in USA and the West has met this fate. It is ideological asymmetric warfare, parasitism, and political ponerology all rolled into one. ABN
American Buddhist Net 