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Stupid Patent of the Month: Clocking in to Work–On an App
- freejazz 4y agoYawn. EFF is a mouthpiece for the biggest patenters and patent-infringers out there and there is nowhere near an appropriate amount of criticism or reflection here on the role the EFF plays, and launders by its popular positions with regards to privacy and security (which are more often than not hypocritically self-serving considering that the constituents and funders of the EFF are the biggest anti-privacy and anti-security entities in existence). Google infringes patents left and right, patents what it wants and uses them against competitors, and works hand in hand with the DoD to fulfill secret defense contracts to reduce privacy and security, on top of what they do in the advertising space, yet everyone here is in a rush to lap up their entirely self-serving narrative about patent trolls, expressed through the mouth of the EFF.
- slaymaker1907 4y agoYou've persuaded precisely no one due to making enormous claims with scant evidence. I don't even see Google on their thanks/sponsors page (though I'm sure they could be receiving funds and just not listing Google). https://www.eff.org/thanks https://www.eff.org/thanks "EFF are the biggest anti-privacy and anti-security entities in existence" - many good citations needed due to the ocean of evidence to the contrary.
- freejazz 4y agoYou misquoted me, I said the institutions that fund the EFF are anti-privacy and anti-security and I explained why. You can disagree all you want, but my supposition rests on its face and I never purported otherwise. You can dig through all you want to come to a conclusion otherwise, I'd be surprised if you did so reasonably.