My sibling in sin, I have an EFF tee from about 2001-2002 that reads, in boldface, “FREE SPEECH HAS A POSSE”. They have always been broadly political.
This does not address the substance of the comment you are replying to. In fact, that comment was itself replying to a comment making the same argument you are making, explicitly explaining why it is non-sequitur.
i went to an eff meeting at a hackerspace in 2006 or 2007, and it was hacker crypto nerds, mostly fat guys with ponytails that liked X files, gaming, and 2600.. some went to 2600 meetings.
I went 10-11 years later, and half the people at the meeting were transexuals, and it was a totally different vibe.
Something happened..