If you ran a corporation or a 501(c)(3) non proft, the board of directors do whats best for the organization.
If the organization isn't willing to back up something in direct line with its own principles, it's not an organization worth associating with.
EFF had a different tune at first re: bitcoin:
Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency, Jan. 2011.
When the issue of a "Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency" got too hot for them, they bailed.
Like the terminally hip, they're all style, little substance.