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The flaw here is thinking the EFF is any better at "regulating tech" than the Zuck would be. They aren't. The best guard of your interests is you, any third party pretending to be on your side isn't. In other words, while Zuck may be the foxes, EFF is the cats.
2/ Take, for example, when the EFF oppose Comcast throttling BitTorrent, in the name of NetNeutrality. This hurt consumers. The only alternative acceptable to the EFF was bandwidth caps -- but BitTorrent users prefer throttling during prime-time rather than bandwidth caps.
3/ BitTorrent on the upstream circuits of cable modems dramatically impact other services, like VoIP latency. There is no way Comcast could provide acceptable VoIP while also providing unrestricted BitTorrent uploads. So many tech decisions are tradeoffs like this.
4/ Comcast's own VoIP isn't affected. They stick their VoIP traffic on a private channel on their cables, which is strangely also allowed by NetNeutrality. It's all the other VoIP services, like Vonage, that are impacted by unrestricted BitTorrent.
5/ BitTorrent users don't really care when downloads complete, so throttling during peak times doesn't hurt them that much. But what they really want is huge download bandwidth per month, so bandwidth caps do impact them.
6/ Thus, BitTorrent users wanted throttling, Comcast wanted throttling, but the EFF said "no", so we don't have bandwidth caps instead. The EFF's promotion of populist causes is demonstrably not in the hen house's interests.
7/ The same is true with privacy. Consumers get enormous benefit from privacy invasions. I exploited invaded privacy every day, such as when avoiding traffic jams on Google maps, or deciding what products to buy on Amazon.com.
8/ I'm exploiting invaded privacy right this minute by tweeting, something that only works because Twitter can provide a free service by exploiting the private information I willingly give them.
9/ The EFF's pursuit of populism, insisting the Facebooks of the world are the foxes, and that they are the defenders of our interests, is only going to hurt us. Sure, forcing more transparency out of Facebook is good, but the EFF's insistence on policy is only going to hurt us.
10/ So while Facebook may be the foxes, the EFF is definitely the cats. 
