Yes. They're both about harming and dividing people in the name of irrational beliefs supported by their emotions. These beliefs in the past even led to consensuses of imprisonment, beatings, and murders. If Eich merely had an opinion, I'd just disagree with it and say let him keep doing his good work. Putting money into active attacks on Americans' liberties, including his own employees/contributors, is totally different. Keep him or get rid of him is a grey area for me where I'm not decided on morale superiority of either yet. It could have wide-ranging effects in other areas of political participation.

Nonetheless, eliminating the wallet of someone paying to split you from your lover seems like self-defense rather than an attack. Their reaction was justified to say the least. The real evil here is the consistent trend of one group of people trying to limit another they disagree with. Let them be them, us be us, whatever so long as no provable harm is happening. That's my baseline for civil liberties.