No Craig Newmark Did Not Donate To EFF; He Helped Make CFAA Worse Instead
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150701/14150431519/no-craig-newmark-did-not-donate-to-eff-he-helped-make-cfaa-worse-instead.shtml
There's been a bunch of fuss online over the "news" that
Craigslist is supposedly donating $1 million to EFF when the
money is not actually from Craig. It's from a startup that
Craigslist has sued out of business, under a dangerous
interpretation of the CFAA that harms the open internet.
Obviously, EFF getting an additional $1 million in resources is
really great. But it's troubling to see so many people
congratulate Craigslist and Craig Newmark for "supporting EFF."
Craig himself has contributed to this misleading perception with
this tweet implying he's giving his own money to EFF: Plenty of
smart people are cheering on Craig for supposedly being so
generous. But that's wrong. This isn't Craigslist being
generous. This is Craigslist abusing the CFAA to kill a company
who was making the internet better, and then handing over some of
the proceeds to the EFF, which actively opposed Craigslist's
lawsuit.
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The hypocrisy utterly reeks.
--Lauren--
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