EFF tends to be far more timid than what I am comfortable with.
- give them money
- offer them a political advantage over their opponents
- build up enough grassroots support among their constituents that not supporting your positions would be effectively career suicide
The best organizations utilize all three.
> because logic just doesn't work for tech
is more than a little ironic to me. I suppose it's like people saying you can't 'out-logic' a judge through a technicality, or that the law does not mean they are Perfect Laws of Logic; they're designed to be interpreted by judges.
I admire the EFF though, and I support what they advocate for. I was going to say I'd like them to be more pragmatic, but I suppose their hardline opinions are most of the reason they exist as an advocacy organization.
To your actual point, though, I think you've totally nailed it. I'm not sure if emotion and politics are permanently inextricable, but from my limited, unfortunate experience, it seems as though any kind of logical argument doesn't or can't (!) sway anyone (myself, of course, included!)