[hn_user82179]

> I don’t think Elon Musk personally has to put his finger on any scale. I thought EFF would be his thing too, no?

Not sure why you would say that, I know he’s branded himself as a tech guy but beyond that nothing about the EFF seems to match his values.

The EFF tried to sue him last year too: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments...

[peyton]

Maybe, I haven’t been keeping up since the cracker machine stuff. I thought EFF was a GNU-adjacent thing any generic tech person supported. I guess I was wrong.

[tgma]

The GNU-adjacent thing would be FSF, and I'd say many EFF supporters are antagonistic towards the FSF (and/or RMS) because of their "extremist" stances. I'd characterize EFF as "corporate Open Source" vs. FSF/GNU "Free Software."