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This sentence follows directly after quoting the founding statement's stated grievance, 'the excesses of Operation Sun Devil' — and the source notes for that citation explicitly flag that the founding statement 'does not mention Steve Jackson Games.' The Steve Jackson Games raid (Secret Service, Austin, March 1990) and Operation Sun Devil (a separate, larger Secret Service crackdown, publicly announced in May 1990) are commonly conflated but are documented as distinct actions. Presenting the SJG raid as 'the immediate catalyst' for EFF's founding immediately after quoting the founders' own statement citing a different operation risks implying the two are the same event, when the only source for the SJG-raid-as-catalyst framing is a 2006 secondary AP retrospective, not the founders' contemporaneous statement. This is a misleading causal/associative framing that should either clarify the Sun Devil/SJG distinction or more clearly separate the AP's retrospective characterization from the founders' own stated rationale.
Flagged by the review on Oct 25, 2026; open for 1 days as of Oct 26, 2026.