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The CEO of ProtonMail previously: https://threatpost.com/protonvpn-ceo-blasts-apple-myanmar/165022, and https://protonmail.com/blog/protesters-free-speech is pretty hypocritical now, but you can spot a pattern, that he only opposes the systems and governments the West opposes too. In that way, I consider him to be nothing more, than the willing tool of propaganda, for his own enrichement.
from their comment on reddit, it seems there wasn't much they could do
what did you expect them to do?
Try a little harder at least. Just the surrounding publicity even for a lost court-case would have been a net benefit.
Their explanation sound like "we couldn't do anything against this legal over-reach because the entity that did the legal over-reach said that it was all legal and fine", which when you think about it longer than 3 seconds is true for each and every case where the authorities request something. An internal "review" by a biased party involved in one side is not the same as a real test in court.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131002/17443624734/lavabit-tried-giving-feds-its-ssl-key-11-pages-4-point-type-feds-complained-that-it-was-illegible.shtml
No they didn't actually, they turned over the SSL keys in a printed document which would give them access to all users' data, but the FBI complained that they would have to input it all by hand which could lead to errors and re trials so they forced him to provide with a digital copy, after which he got fined and then decided to close the service.
Did you ever attempt to host an email server for activists?