If Russia had a functioning democracy, with rule of law and an independent judiciary, if Russia's legal system resisted abuses of power, if law enforcement prot

If Russia had a functioning democracy, with rule of law and an independent judiciary, if Russia's legal system resisted abuses of power, if law enforcement protected the people's interest against the interests of oligarchs and the politically connected instead of vice versa, I might have a different view. But I have little confidence that surveillance requires warrants, or that warrants are only issued with valid probable cause of real crimes, and not against dissidents, journalists, political adversaries and business competitors. Therefore, ProtonMail's only moral and ethical response is to refuse to cooperate with Russia's law enforcement. The same would be true in China if ProtonMail was available there. And given what we now know about the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, I'd have to say they've become more like Russia than most care to contemplate.