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EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-close-friday-solidarity-national-shutdown
39•8organicbits•1h ago

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1970-01-01•1h ago
This is an unhelpful and poorly explained message on very short notice. What does shutdown even mean? Is the website going down? Are they going to redirect the website? Won't a shutdown only hurt the people that need their services? How exactly is shutting down helping protestors say things are out of control?
mingus88•39m ago
It’s called a general strike.
nickff•15m ago
But the EFF doesn't provide services to the government; this action will actually benefit the 'offending' government officials by relieving them of the pressure the EFF is intended to effect.
ChrisArchitect•32m ago
right? are they going to go dark on the website? Or is it about some kind of physical office? It doesn't say anything.
joemazerino•1h ago
The EFF I remember fought for open source, ownership rights and privacy. I stopped donating in 2020 .
krunck•1h ago
Governments that feel justified in thuggery and murder will also engage in violations of privacy and freedom.
undeveloper•49m ago
it's generally difficult to have privacy when you have roving state-sponsored rape gangs in the streets with tech built by a company, similarly state-subsidized, named after a stone that can see all. if you cannot see this, your ignorance has blinded you.
noncoml•20m ago
Federal agents taking photos of your face while you are minding your own business, to upload them and compare them against a database of “citizens” is quite a privacy concern in my books
nickff•12m ago
And to demonstrate their devotion to the cause, the EFF will take a day off from advocating against these behaviours? This makes no sense to me; why should a watchdog participate in a strike like this?
bobwaycott•6m ago
Solidarity.
reaperducer•20m ago
I stopped donating in 2020 .

Then you don't get a say. By your own choice.

Are you also one of those people who doesn't vote, then complains about how lousy the politicians are?

peterhadlaw•14m ago
What voting are you talking about? By not giving funding it's exactly that. A vote. A choice. I also stopped donating to the EFF when they showed they are shifting more political (non-tech space) than privacy focused etc. Does the EFF hold an annual vote I missed as a sponsor?
reaperducer•11m ago
What voting are you talking about?

Which letter of "politicians" did you not understand?

yostrovs•9m ago
It is strange when unrelated topics get lumped together, almost forcing people to have to take sides they don't want to take. It creates animosity beyond what's at stake.
embedding-shape•38m ago
"National Shutdown" seems to be about this: https://nationalshutdown.org/ (found via https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5712766-nati...)

> national SHUTDOWN FRI JAN 30 NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. - The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.

So servers will still be running and websites, but won't be any people in offices, school, factories, shops, and so on.

ChrisArchitect•30m ago
how do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers?
mistrial9•25m ago
what social effect does this have if personal screen silos are Business As Usual while social interaction is halted?
reaperducer•22m ago
how do you get from no school/work/shopping to no websites/servers?

Servers perform work. For people. My oven (KitchenAid) is a machine, yet has a setting that makes it non-functional during certain religious events that require people not to work.

Similarly, B&H Photo's web site won't take orders on the Sabbath. They'd rather take the revenue hit than violate their principles.

A foreign notion to the tech industry.

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