They’re essentially single-issue organizations that attack the symptoms (affronts to privacy, etc), not the root cause of the problem: capitalist-driven software development, and its endless drive for profit at the expense of all else, namely human needs.

By separating themselves from the wider political struggles against that system, the best they can do is criticize big tech, and suggest alternatives that have 1/1000th of the money and developers that capitalist software has. This hasn’t worked and will never work. We need political struggles not just for alternatives, but an expropriation of big tech, removing control of them from the profit-seekers, open-sourcing their codebases, and making transparent all the things they’re doing that we don’t know about.

These orgs should either create wings in, or absorb themselves into anti-capitalist political parties who after taking power can actually bring these software companies under public control and civilian oversight.