Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service

Techdirt has been a consistently better aggregator of “anti-establishment” tech news than NBC, and does do original reporting as well. I'd guess the submitter has an RSS feed or bookmark there.

I get that a terse Rand quote doesn't really garner much respect, but there's a point here undeserving of the downvotes - the government is effectively saying that Mr. Levison should be forced to remain in business for the sole purpose of serving the government's interests (by threatening to arrest and prosecute him for the action of going out of business) - a circumstance which is depicted as one of rings in the downward spiral of the crumbling dystopia in Atlas Shrugged.