Any self-respecting maintainer will not come back after this.
Linux might have a lot of developers, but has a hard time finding and retaining maintainers.
This is not a good development.
EFF should start a fork if any part of them still stands for what's in their name.
It's not a big deal for Linux either, the code in question is mostly for devices that are not sold in the west. So no loss there.
That's the beauty of open source, you can say no to contributions for any reason whatsoever, and the contributor can fork your code and continue to develop it as they please.
Something like 80-90% of said contributions are essentially corporate.
I live in a country which may one day find itself under US sanctions, and I'm been busy cutting reliance on American services, just to avoid having to migrate everything in a rush if that happens. Everyone here understands this (for example, my day job migrated off GitHub to self hosted gitlab back in 2022), and I can't imagine many people will be interested in spending years of effort to then possibly be kicked from the project because they chose to be born in a wrong country.