Well, first of all, the ACLU and the EFF, to the best of my knowledge, never hide or misrepresent their involvement in any litigation. That’s a pretty big difference from square one.
But second, and more importantly, if the ACLU or the EFF were involved in litigation to bankrupt a media outlet because of unrelated content they didn’t like but couldn’t sue over, I’d have a pretty big problem with that as well.