Yes, I remember his bad faith offers, thinking that he has the right to decide on how a sovereign country's justice system should work. What I don't remember was any reasoning on why he thought it more likely that he'd be extradited from Sweden to the US rather than from the UK, who are particularly close?
Anyway, I see you've drunk the koolaid and are in full defense mode, so I'll leave you to it.
The VPN is just part of the picture (sock puppet accounts complaining about speed of dev, no meaningful history of other contributions from the dev, no trusted "personal network" for the dev, etc) that in hindsight should have raised red flags.
I suppose they're getting at why was it important that Redis was open source to you? Under the assumption someone else would be responsible for free updates?
That isn't hiding behind these laws though necessarily. I've heard of this from Paypal and I'm sure it happens, on the other hand I'm sure there is lots of abuse and we only ever hear one side of the story.