I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every zip with red carp now back at Starbucks. Between forgetting the sellotape,

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Hello and welcome to decoder. I'm Neil Aipatel, editor and chief of the Verge,

and decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems.

Today my guest is Cindy Cohen, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

or EFF. Now if you're an internet user of a certain age like me, you know the EFF as the

premier civil liberties group from the internet. In the early days of the internet the EFF

fought pitched battles against things like government surveillance, digital rights management

for music and movies, and speech regulations that would violate the first amendment.

Those fights were important and they shaped the internet as we know it today.

But now the EFF is 32 years old and a lot of those controversies aren't really about the

government anymore. Private platform companies at Twitter and Apple and Google have an enormous

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