@COSAntiFascists A similar case to this exists with media and videographers: a corporate media outlet on receiveing a grand jury subpoena might challenge it in court but won't fall on their sword if it fails.

An activists videographer on the other hand will either defy the grand jury or cease to be an activist. Example here is my own response to that 2018 grand jury subpeona after the failed nazi "Unite the Right II" attempt to stage a second Charlottesville in DC.

I was prepared to give up my own life to protect the folks being investigated, but the grand jury itself wasn't up for this kind of heavy and folded. Had this been the Washington Post or CNN they would have gotten what they wanted for sure.

Note that in the Crimethinc hypothetical about an all-out crackdown and collapse
https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/21/survival-a-story-about-anarchists-enduring-mass-raids
there is exactly ONE email provider that falls on their sword to protect their users: Riseup. Riseup is activist run so same obligations I have. Here's the relevent text from the Crimethinc hypothetical:

"Riseup allegedly melted their servers with thermite during a raid and were all arrested. Protonmail has apparently been collaborating, injecting spyware onto user’s devices, and some people are surprised by this? "

AGAIN-that's a hypothetical of the relative responses of activist-owned Riseup vs corporate owned Proton in an all-out crackdown.

Proton has no more vested interest in defending us than Riseup does in defending ransomware operators, whon they did in fact allegedly provide information on in one case.

Nobody goes to the mat and slugs it out for those whom they have no alleigence to: not Proton for us, and not Riseup for organized crime ransomware operators.