Somewhat hard to be neutral when outgrowths of the Israeli state like the NSO Group and Canary Mission start taking a stand against privacy and free speech

This comment makes it sound like you are trying to belittle people who work at nonprofits to make yourself feel better about putting profits over people.

The EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. That is verbatim off their website. It appears that this perfectly in line with their core mission.

Freedom is literally in their name. Can it be more core than that?

Unless I'm missing something, it literally is not?

Yep. These nonprofits have a tendency of being abused for the personal causes of their staff. Clearly this isn’t part of their mission unless you go through some mental gymnastics.

Well, reporting the largest abuses of non-free software companies could be seen as a corollary to that.

> I honestly thought they focused on free speech/privacy/open source.

Pointing complicity with a regime that killed over 260 journalists[1] has a very strong focus and serves well free speech.

[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-24/israel-h...

this... is their core mission