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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was established to help
civilize the "electronic frontier"---the Cyberspacial medium
becoming ever-present in today's society; to make it truly useful and
beneficial not just to a technical elite, but to everyone; and to do
this in a way which is in keeping with the society's highest
traditions of the free and open flow of information and
communication.(15)
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The mission of the EFF is
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to engage in and support educational activities which increase popular
understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by
developments in computing and telecommunications;
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to develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the
issues underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the
creation of legal and structural approaches which will ease the
assimilation of these new technologies by society;
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to raise public awareness about civil liberties issues
arising from the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based
communications media and, where necessary, support litigation in
the public interest to preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment
rights within the realm of computing and telecommunications
technology;
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to encourage and support the development of new tools which
will endow non-technical users with full and easy access to
computer-based telecommunications;
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The Usenet newsgroups comp.org.eff.talk and
comp.org.eff.news are dedicated to discussion concerning the
EFF. They also have mailing list counterparts for those that don't
have access to Usenet, eff-talk-request@eff.org and
eff-news-request@eff.org . The first is an informal arena (aka
a normal newsgroup) where anyone may voice his or her opinions. The
second, comp.org.eff.news , is a moderated area for regular
postings from the EFF in the form of EFFector Online. To
submit a posting for the EFFector Online, or to get general
information about the EFF, write to eff@eff.org . There is
also a wealth of information available via anonymous FTP on
ftp.eff.org .
The EFF can be contacted at
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.
155 Second St. #1
Cambridge, MA 02141
eff@eff.org
(617) 864-0665
(617) 864-0866 (Fax)
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