The EFF is fighting for the right thing here, but it loses credibility when it mischaracterizes legal procedure to make things look extra-scary.
They've been doing that a lot in recent years, and the more they do it the lower my support gets. They're implicitly lying to their strongest supporters, and there are enough attorneys on the staff that I wonder why this is considered an acceptable way to communicate with the public. Arguments like this would rightly be derided if the other side advanced them in a legal filing, why are they being foisted on the public?
Occasionally I hear people stalking 'the court of public opinion' having different rules from the law courts. Fuck that bullshit, if you'll excuse my language. The EFF is ain a great position to educate people on how the law actually functions and why cases are so intricate and drag on for so long, but they choose not to. It disturbs me.
They've been doing that a lot in recent years, and the more they do it the lower my support gets. They're implicitly lying to their strongest supporters, and there are enough attorneys on the staff that I wonder why this is considered an acceptable way to communicate with the public. Arguments like this would rightly be derided if the other side advanced them in a legal filing, why are they being foisted on the public?
Occasionally I hear people stalking 'the court of public opinion' having different rules from the law courts. Fuck that bullshit, if you'll excuse my language. The EFF is ain a great position to educate people on how the law actually functions and why cases are so intricate and drag on for so long, but they choose not to. It disturbs me.