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by foxyshadis1 on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 08:06:35 PM PDT

Actually, the biggest defenders of the internet culture in courts have always been ISPs, with EFF, ACLU, and universities occasionally giving support and occasionally snubbing them. ISPs and/or websites themselves tend to bear many of the costs of defence of free, anonymous speech online.

They also rarely champion rights they aren't interested in, such as the consumer protection issues this blog focuses on. If the ACLU actually cared as much about defending against big business as big brother, we might not have so many anti-consumer laws bought and flagrant violations of others.

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