I'd much rather they limited their donations to organizations with still-breathing warrant canaries (e.g. not RiseUp).
Maybe I'm cynical, but I think that non-profit organizations with dead national security warrant canaries cannot accomplish technical or social activism as effectively as they might have in the past.
I don't understand how an organization so concerned with privacy can hand over private unencrypted user data to the FBI and then nonchalantly pass it off as OK because those users violated the "letter and the spirit" of their "social contract". This is a massive design failure on RiseUp's part and should not be taken lightly.
Did you read the thing whose link you are responding to? The design has indeed been altered:
> We have taken action to ensure that Riseup never again has access to a user’s stored email in plaintext. Starting today, all new Riseup email accounts will feature personally encrypted storage on our servers, only accessible by you.
I'm not thrilled with the action that was taken, complying with the sealed warrant. I suspect Riseup isn't either. But I also think it would be ridiculous to expect Riseup admins to go to jail to protect people using their service to extort others. I definitely wouldn't have been willing to either if I were in their place.
Maybe I'm cynical, but I think that non-profit organizations with dead national security warrant canaries cannot accomplish technical or social activism as effectively as they might have in the past.