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by wickedsight 10 days ago
It feels weird/wrong that the Anne Frank Foundation of all things would fight against a free internet and battle companies that allow people to fight oppressive regimes.
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They didn't like that the Dutch copyright law didn't apply outside of the Netherlands and tried to take back the documents with the "anyone visiting this page can be Dutch and therefore Dutch law still applies" argument.

It's not about a free internet, it's plain old copyright and control.

This is very typical. An organisation will always name itself something that sounds good, especially if it plans to do bad things.