Your trust model doesn't make sense to me. A trust heuristic that penalises even the least worst public action they could take on being served with a backdoorin

Your trust model doesn't make sense to me. A trust heuristic that penalises even the least worst public action they could take on being served with a backdooring+gag order -- i.e. shutting down the service to avoid complying -- is effectively rewarding services that take no public action at all, ie silently comply. Such a heuristic isn't paranoid -- if anything, it's rather credulous (by applying comparatively less scrutiny to services which operate out of the same jurisdiction (one known to serve orders of this type) yet which somehow happily continue operating).