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General Information About the EFF

• Information Infrastructure: Introducing the EFF.
• Civil Liberties: The civil liberties EFF cares about.
• Legal Services: Legal services provided by the EFF.
• Community Building: How to build an Internet community?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was founded in July of 1990 to ensure that the principles embodied in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are protected as new communications technologies emerge.

From the beginning, EFF has worked to shape our nation's communications infrastructure and the policies that govern it in order to maintain and enhance First Amendment, privacy and other democratic values. We believe that our overriding public goal must be the creation of Electronic Democracy, so our work focuses on the establishment of:

• new laws that protect citizens' basic Constitutional rights as they use new communications technologies,

• a policy of common carriage requirements for all network providers so that all speech, no matter how controversial, will be carried without discrimination,

• a National Public Network where voice, data and video services are accessible to all citizens on an equitable and affordable basis, and

• a diversity of communities that enable all citizens to have a voice in the information age.

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