http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/06/rand-paul-to-introduce-fou...
Paul, I'd assume -though that assumption in turn assumes he's smart enough to tie his own shoes- knows or was told this already.
So... PR stunt?
One page, straight to the point. Nice.
That would also be more in line with Congress's constitutional duties. It's true that the courts should enforce a robust 4th amendment. But Congress does not need to force them to do so: it could simply not pass laws that violate the 4th amendment, or if it realizes it has done so, it can repeal those laws.
What good is donating to the EFF when they have no power to stop the CIA/NSA from doing this?
Donating to the EFF doesn't change the fact that the CIA/NSA are actively monitoring you now. What the NSA/CIA is doing is arguably illegal, yet they're still doing it.
(Disclosure: I work for EFF)
[1] http://www.onion-router.net/History.html (2004) [2] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere [3] https://supporters.eff.org/donate
I'm not convinced a marginal dollar donated to the EFF does that much right now -- EFF is great, but fairly well funded.
I found the humble bundle is a good way of donating to EFF, because that way at least it looks like a game purchase rather than a donation. If I were interested in donating of course.
If they were entirely partisan or entirely anti-government they'd be a lot less effectual. By being issue-specific and in helping the government properly codify their own laws in addition to just slamming them for bad laws the EFF is a much more powerful and respectable entity worthy of our support.
We have to be selective in what we do and we can't be everywhere, but fortunately there are many other digital rights organizations across the world that we help. If you have a local one, please support it. If you don't have one, start one, and then talk to us about helping you!
I'm now donating $10 per month, and consider it money well spent.
@Everyone: Tag along and sign up for a monthly donation!
I've also just added EFF as a charity option on my activism site [1]. I donated as a bounty for my favorite task championing Score Voting for national elections, which I incidentally feel is a necessary reform to get some alternative voices heard and potentially elected.
[1] https://www.brianstaskforce.com/blog/electronic-frontier-fou...
When I simply asked, why(curiosity)? One of them said, "well, you know..hmm..whatever man. It's just a choice". He stopped at that. And then countd a few Indian charities he had donated to and that included INR 51000 at an Andhra temple(his home state) and then was quick to add "that temple does a lot of charity work". I guess it was one of those US Visa God temples.
Another was clearer in her response. She said, "I've done my masters there and plan to settle there".
I guess I'll start actively donating to AAP[1] now, along with WikiLeaks and WikiPedia and few others.
