So you suggest them to drop their business (which took years to build), abandon their families and run because their local court (or police) issued an order, one of several hundreds they have to process each year? Also - in which country could they seek political asylum exactly? Surely not the Commonwealth, not EU, not Russia (PM is banned there because they did not comply with Russian FSB orders), not China, not Saudi Arabia... Not so many places left, it seems.
Whether you like it or not, ProtonMail's business model conflict with most of the jurisdictions. In that sense, they are no better than PirateBay, Wikileaks or Sci-Hub.
