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by harry8 4314 days ago
The organisation you are looking for is Amnesty International. The Chaos Computer Club's focus should be obvious from their name. I don't recall Pussy Riot or Falung Gong revealing government secrets and blowing the whistle on unalawful behaviour generally involving computers. Many people who are critical of aspects of US policy and institutional behaviour grew up looking at the US as a shining light of freedom and justice in opposition to the evil that was the USSR. Not everything is an anti-us conspiracy, perhaps the required eternal vigilance hasn't been quite vigilant enough and now we know? Perhaps it is starting to be properly vigilant again and the USA's greatness will re-assert itself just as some patriotic American heroes did previously against the likes of McCarthy?

Anyway here is the wikipedia page for the CCC with whom I happen to have absolutely zero association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club Give it a cursory glance and decide for yourself if this group is focused on being "anti-american"