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- ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
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- MISSION STATEMENT
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- A new world is arising in the vast web of digital, electronic media
- which connect us. Computer-based communication media like electronic
- mail and computer conferencing are becoming the basis of new forms of
- community. These communities without a single, fixed geographical
- location comprise the first settlements on an electronic frontier.
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- While well-established legal principles and cultural norms give
- structure and coherence to uses of conventional media like newspapers,
- books, and telephones, the new digital media do not so easily fit into
- existing frameworks. Conflicts come about as the law struggles to
- define its application in a context where fundamental notions of speech,
- property, and place take profoundly new forms. People sense both the
- promise and the threat inherent in new computer and communications
- technologies, even as they struggle to master or simply cope with them
- in the workplace and the home.
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- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been established to help civilize
- the electronic frontier; to make it truly useful and beneficial not just
- to a technical elite, but to everyone; and to do this in a way which is
- in keeping with our society's highest traditions of the free and open
- flow of information and communication.
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- To that end, the Electronic Frontier Foundation will:
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- 1. Engage in and support educational activities which increase
- popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by
- developments in computing and telecommunications.
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- 2. Develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the issues
- underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the creation of
- legal and structural approaches which will ease the assimilation of
- these new technologies by society.
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- 3. Raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising from
- the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based communications
- media. Support litigation in the public interest to preserve, protect,
- and extend First Amendment rights within the realm of computing and
- telecommunications technology.
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- 4. Encourage and support the development of new tools which will
- endow non-technical users with full and easy access to computer-based
- telecommunications.
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- The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- 155 Second Street
- Cambridge, MA 02141
- +1 617 864 0665
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