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From: samuel@shemp.cs.wisc.edu (Samuel Bates)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: EFF Chapters
Keywords: EFF college academia chapters
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.164325.2631@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 16:43:25 GMT
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In article <7846@hsv3.UUCP> mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>Yes, but there are people interested in promoting the aims of EFF who
>aren't interested in promoting the entire spectrum of trendy causes 
>which the Politically Correct define as "Social Responsibility."
>The electronic frontier might be better served by a separate group.
>-- 
>"It was more dangerous to drive                 Mike Van Pelt
>away from Three Mile Island than                Headland Technology/Video 7
>to stay there." -- Dr. Bruce Ames.              ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp

Before tarring an entire organization with the brush of Political Correctness,
you should try to find out if Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
does in fact promote "trendy causes."  Furthermore, there are twenty different 
CPSR chapters, and they have widely differing interests.  I'm not saying that
you shouldn't start a separate group, but kindly do not sling mud at a group
who is, after all, working with the EFF on a number of civil liberties issues.

						--Samuel Bates
						  Chair, CPSR-Madison