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It upsets me to read negative comments about initiatives like this. My assumption is that most people agree that it&#x27;d be good for the ACLU to have more funding and to operate in a more efficient, higher leverage manner. If YC can help with that, great! They could be backing other areas instead, or they could be backing nothing. I, for one, am glad they&#x27;re backing something good.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why people often bring up other areas where private money and resources could have gone. When someone says &quot;I support X&quot; (e.g. X = ACLU), they are not saying &quot;I don&#x27;t support anything that&#x27;s not X.&quot; They are just saying they care about X. If <i>you</i> would prefer to donate your time and resources to another cause, that&#x27;s great! I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;d be disappointed if you dedicated yourself to curing diabetes and someone complained because they thought cancer research should be higher priority, or if you offered to hire 10k refugees around the world and people suggested a boycott because they preferred that you hire Americans instead.<p>Let&#x27;s not discourage people from trying to make the world better.