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ACLU Reacts to Privacy Concerns
nettle writes "Back in September I began a series of commentaries about one person's experience signing up as a new member of the ACLU. I'd used their website to sign up, and was shocked to find my mailbox full of junk parcels, flyers, and personalized merchandise from dozens of nonprofit organizations like People for the American Way, Sierra Club, Americans for This, Americans for That, yadda yadda. I complained to the ACLU, having suspected that they had given out my contact info. So I wrote about the situation on my Nettle.com blog here and here and began a public correspondence with Anthony Romero, Exec Dir of ACLU, and Nadine Stossen, President of ACLU. Nadine promised they'd take action. I told her if they fixed the signup page on ACLU's website so that people could opt-out of ACLU's personal-info-sharing, I'd renew my membership. Well, Nadine kept her end of the bargain. Here's a screen capture of their new signup page. And my check to the ACLU goes out in today's mail! Blogs DO make a difference."
Mod this up.
Anyone who doesn't think the ACLU are a bunch of hypocrites needs to watch "Kurt and Courtney." In one scene, the filmmaker attends an ACLU function where Courtney Love is set to be awarded a free speech award, despite the fact that there is a record of her harassing journalists.
When the filmmaker is allowed a chance to speak to the audience, he brings this up, and is promptly tossed into the street.
I agree with their ideals, but with actions like this, they'll never get a cent from me.
vi ~/.emacs
I'm glad a large organization like the ACLU reacted like that!
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Unfortunately I still disagree how they constantly persecute mainstream religions and expressions there of as well as minimize the majority to accomodate the minority. Their track record has really turned me off to them to the point where I consider them one of our problems on The Hill.
I think I threw in more than two cents worth on this one.
Sam