It's their official press release, why are you defending them when they didn't even lay out the issue in their official press release? And sure, if you go through everything linked, you can piece together a fair bit of the story. It's a press release though-- as in something they want the press to pickup on and report on. The press isn't great at reporting on technical issues to begin with. Do you really think the EFF is doing a good job when it sprinkles the details over links to a half dozen other pages?
Don't get me wrong, this isn't the way all of their stuff reads. But it happens from time to time,and I expect better from the EFF when a simple extra paragraph would do the job and they're an organization that I very much expect to do a better job at providing information than this.
Perhaps those who consider themselves to be part of the educated class find sloganeering distasteful and thus contrary to the goals of the movement? After all, it's likely those part of the educated class that are going to do the real groundwork on these important matters of policy.
Perhaps if it was a good slogan, it wouldn't need discussion.
Slogans? This wasn't a 5-second soundbite or a banner ad. Sure they should use slogans, but this was their official press release on the issue, and it was practically content-free. A few sentences would have been enough to outline the details of what's going on.
Parkinson's Law doesn't really apply when pointing out hypocrisy.
Slogans are fine as long as the details are available somewhere for those that want to dig in.
I feel like the linked article from GP has plenty of additional details linked. There is also plenty of media coverage on what they are discussing.
I am confused what is perceived as actually missing and why that missing content is somehow an indict on EFF
It's their official press release, why are you defending them when they didn't even lay out the issue in their official press release? And sure, if you go through everything linked, you can piece together a fair bit of the story. It's a press release though-- as in something they want the press to pickup on and report on. The press isn't great at reporting on technical issues to begin with. Do you really think the EFF is doing a good job when it sprinkles the details over links to a half dozen other pages?
Don't get me wrong, this isn't the way all of their stuff reads. But it happens from time to time,and I expect better from the EFF when a simple extra paragraph would do the job and they're an organization that I very much expect to do a better job at providing information than this.
More improper use of a "gotcha".
Perhaps those who consider themselves to be part of the educated class find sloganeering distasteful and thus contrary to the goals of the movement? After all, it's likely those part of the educated class that are going to do the real groundwork on these important matters of policy.
Perhaps if it was a good slogan, it wouldn't need discussion.
All of these are possibilities.
How essential are slogans, in your view?
Slogans? This wasn't a 5-second soundbite or a banner ad. Sure they should use slogans, but this was their official press release on the issue, and it was practically content-free. A few sentences would have been enough to outline the details of what's going on.
Parkinson's Law doesn't really apply when pointing out hypocrisy.