"...seems quite likely they are not friends of individual privacy" is a vague and unfair slur without specific examples of organizations and anti-privacy stances.
True, the libertarian-leaning groups are not going to mind so much about something like audience-tracking scripts, because such things are a pea-shooter threat to privacy, compared to the government's privacy carpet-bombing.
We can defend ourselves and others from Google Analytics, and not wind up in prison for trying. Not so with a state program of total, secret, compulsory surveillance, that's linked with the government's unique scale, permanence, legal immunity, and ability-to-punish.
Against such a threat, those who emphasize the common cause are the good coalition partners. Someone on the sidelines, like the Salon writer, withholding support based on a partisan ideological purity test? Not an impressive coalition partner!
True, the libertarian-leaning groups are not going to mind so much about something like audience-tracking scripts, because such things are a pea-shooter threat to privacy, compared to the government's privacy carpet-bombing.
We can defend ourselves and others from Google Analytics, and not wind up in prison for trying. Not so with a state program of total, secret, compulsory surveillance, that's linked with the government's unique scale, permanence, legal immunity, and ability-to-punish.
Against such a threat, those who emphasize the common cause are the good coalition partners. Someone on the sidelines, like the Salon writer, withholding support based on a partisan ideological purity test? Not an impressive coalition partner!