> Let's Encrypt’s mission is to create a more secure and privacy-respecting web, except for people residing in countries with the most need for a more secure and privacy-respecting web. Sure, that's great.
If complying with the law gets in the way of the mission I’m not sure that counts as a change to the mission.
Should NRA hand out guns to everyone who can’t get a permit where permits are required? Of course not. If they are against gun permits they have to fight the law, not break it.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) describes itself as America’s longest-standing civil rights organization.
That is a specific US-internal stance.
There's a list of organizations that started in the US, ultimately having had to work around the US legal system, in pursuit of their missions:
re Planned Parenthood Global, WikiLeaks, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Center for Reproductive Rights, selected programs of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, et al
If complying with the law gets in the way of the mission I’m not sure that counts as a change to the mission.