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From: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: CPSR vs. EFF
Message-ID: <9269@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 91 23:45:35 GMT
Reply-To: mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt)
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A while back, someone suggested that there was no need for local and/or
student chapters of EFF; interested people should just join CPSR.  What
followed was a flame-war about the nature of CPSR.  Not to light off
the old flame war again, but there's a news item in the latest "Unix
Today!" which bears on the issue:

     "The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
     have taken out an advertisement in the West Coast edition
     of the New York Times protesting the use of computer
     technology in the war with Iraq."

This does tend to support my off-the-cuff characterization of CPSR.  I
suspect a fair percentage of those who support what EFF is doing find
this sort of thing utterly cretinous. 

Anyone who supports such Trendy Berkeley Left issues should by all
means join CPSR, but EFF should not get involved in it.  EFF should not
limit itself to support from the Painfully Politically Correct; its
agenda is far broader and more important than that.
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