T-Mobile CEO John Legere, the Donald Trump of telco executives, set off a Twitter firestorm this afternoon when he tweeted a video of himself asking “Who the fuck are you EFF, why are you stirring up so much trouble, and who pays you?”
The EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group focused on internet freedom issues such as network neutrality, encryption and intellectual property law. It’s funded by donations from both individuals and corporations.
Legere’s outburst came in response to a question tweeted to him by the EFF itself asking whether T-Mobile’s Binge On unlimited video service altered or limited the bandwidth of video streams. The EFF recently published a report calling out T-Mobile for throttling connections to all video sites as part of the program. The organization is not without its critics, but it also has a legion of tech savvy supporters, many of whom took to Twitter to educate Legere about the organization.
Some were funny:
Others were more serious:
Ultimately, Legere was forced to clarify that he did in fact know who the EFF is:
