[HN Gopher] Annual EFF Awards Goe to Alexandra Elbakyan, Library...
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       Annual EFF Awards Goe to Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom
       Project, and Signal
        
       Author : mutant_glofish
       Score  : 82 points
       Date   : 2023-07-27 20:22 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dredmorbius wrote:
       | One of the most important factors in changing laws and
       | confronting oppressive forces is to create strong popular
       | awareness and support for those opposing them. Among other
       | things, _this makes them far more risky and formidible as targets
       | of opportunity for oppressors_.
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       | In this sense I hope very much that the cyberrights movement is
       | maturing to recognise that _technical_ means of fighting such
       | oppression are, whilst necessary, _not_ sufficient. EFF are
       | showing an increased awareness of this (and to be fair, have been
       | aware of this for a long time).
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       | The explicit recognition of Alexandra Elbakyan, a personal hero
       | to me, is not only richly deserved by a _functionally useful_
       | step in fighting copyright overreach and publishing monopolies.
        
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