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Don't celebrate. However ridiculous they might seem, defending against legal actions like this takes time, money, and focus away from efforts that will actually drive the EFF's mission forward.

Instead of patting the EFF on the back for quashing this motion, think of all the resources that went into this hollow victory, and do your best to replenish them.

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This wasn't a ridiculous legal action. EFF raised money to challenge this company's patent, and the company wanted to know who donated to that campaign. Its not like they asked for EFF's donor list out of nowhere. The speech issue is implicated, sure, but on the other side also the right of litigants to know who the opposing party really is.

Then they should as like that - is any of the following named defendants donated for this. And probably get an answer.

But I would have think that a rule against EFF would clash with some of the fallout from Citizen United and the related cases. IIRC there is right now a way to inject money in politics that are very hard to trace to the source.

"Does" get sued all the time these days. Its about time it came around.

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