@adfeno The founders and staff of the EFF, like a lot of the people involved in the development of the net, internalised that image of a free, tolerant, creative, open society, as projected by both US and USSR/PRC propaganda during the Child War. We set out to make the net resemble that image, and then found ourselves at odds with a rapidly globalising state-corporate system that was threatened by people being too free, tolerant, creative, or open.