EFF circa 2013 is a large institution. It does good, but it isn't at all focused on defending people in "boring" cases, which was kind of its original mission (Steve Jackson Games).
There isn't an organization in the tech community which defends people from computer related crimes on bogus but boring grounds the way the ACLU does for pure, conventional free speech.
I think that would be a useful organization; even if a defendant is a racist troll, he deserves a competent defense, and computer crimes are still complex and novel enough that normal legal defense is probably not ideal. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) in a position to fund something like that.
EFF isn't that large (I work there). It takes on cases in exactly the same way as ACLU does, for impact on the law.
It was involved in the Swartz case, but mostly as a resource to help people find other criminal defence lawyers. Lots of people got caught up in the investigation, and they couldn't all be represented by the same firm.
LOL. Weev isn't getting support from the EFF because he is Weev. Who the hell would want to defend him? And specifically here, Weev burned certain bridges there through his normal every-day work as a troll.
