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EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
SUMMER MEMBER TREATS
For Your Digital Rights
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Hi Supporter of Digital Freedom,
EFF’s summer membership drive ends next week! Through EFF's 34th anniversary on July 10:
- Get 2 rare gifts (including a Bigfoot privacy pin),
- Renew your membership for as little as $20, and
- Monthly and annual recurring donations get matched for the first year at [link removed]
The digital future relies on your support—donate today: [link removed]
We’re back with the final story from our friends, The Encryptids, who have come out of the woodwork to celebrate EFF’s summer membership drive! These creatures may be mysterious, but your digital rights shouldn’t be.
We all know technology can be transformative. In today’s post, the multifaceted and multitalented Wolfgang Von Lycanz illustrates how the internet can amplify the best parts of us...
-Aaron
EFF Membership Team
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You contain multitudes. My boss knows me as Wolfgang, the mild-mannered insurance actuary. This is true. But on the internet, I am a radical environmentalist. I am a passionate moombahton DJ. I am a scholar of medieval Slavic history. I am a celebrated author of Doctor Who fanfiction. I am a friend to people I have never met in person. Online, each geeky part of me blossoms in its own meadow, and I find community with people who understand.
This is the internet at its best: a place to be creative, learn without fear, and explore the different aspects of our identities freely.
I recall when Facebook and Google decided that using your government name was the key to civility online. Of course, they ignored what would happen to the dissidents who fight dictators, people evading their abusers, queer teens, and even performers. In fact, it took a gaggle of famous drag queens to show Facebook that the name on your driver’s license isn’t the right one all the time. Sparkle party, indeed! Yet lawmakers did not learn that lesson; to this day, EFF is in Congress and in court to stop laws that would require personal identification to use the web.
Your privacy, your creativity, and the kaleidoscope of curiosity in your heart are the reasons why EFF defends your freedoms. For all the problems with technology, EFF understands that magical transformations still happen when you prioritize human rights and respect for the users. I support EFF with every part of me, and I hope you will donate to support internet freedom for all of us. Give today: [link removed]
For the wild and woolly web,
Wolfgang Von Lycanz
a.k.a DJ Moombeamz
a.k.a. dalekcious42
a.k.a. dnÔ€-oÊŒosoÊž
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