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Electronic Frontier Foundation Seeking Student Activists

Posted on Saturday 12 April 2014 at 02:59 by Rob Callahan

The EFF has got a good, solid history of standing in the way when governments and corporations look to privatize how we share information. They don't always win. Sometimes we end up paying premiums for what we used to do for free, but they are our biggest line of defense.

Cory Doctorow says at BoingBoing:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching a major campus organizing initiative and is looking to build a network of trusted campus activists to work with. They're sending staffers on a road-trip to speak at universities and colleges and want to hear from you. They've released a set of community organizing tools to help you get started.

The EFF provides a lot of good information and organizing resources for student activists at their website. That includes a guide to courting and working with the press.

We share everything we do, everywhere we go, and anyone with the resources can buy that information to use as they see fit. I know that normally doesn't result in much more than advertisers and bill collectors tracking us down in the most inconvenient ways, and I get the argument about having nothing to worry about if you're not doing anything wrong.

That's true (or true enough, anyway,) but that truth exists here in the present. Things can change and, if they do, being part of an educated citizenry with a firm grasp and an ability to navigate the law wouldn't hurt anyone.