Reddit should take one for the team and shut the website down. Redirect it to nsa.gov or a pastebin and provide 223MM monthly uniques with the impetus to fix this fucked up country. Maybe a multi-billion dollar company disappearing overnight would be enough to convince our lawmakers that this isn't compatible with being a part of the new global economy. Maybe it would be enough to get people in the streets.
As an aside, I'd like to see more sites put something like, "if we are ever served a NSL, our website will stop operating", in their privacy policy.
The government can't force you to keep operating a business. If they want to abuse NSL's, so be it. I want the John McCains in our government to realize what they're doing.
At the risk of sounding cynical, I think this whole ordeal indicates the opposite. If "people in the streets" is to be evidence that surveillance "isn't compatible with being part of the new global economy," then we should also take a hint from the lack of "people in the streets."
As an aside, I'd like to see more sites put something like, "if we are ever served a NSL, our website will stop operating", in their privacy policy.
The government can't force you to keep operating a business. If they want to abuse NSL's, so be it. I want the John McCains in our government to realize what they're doing.