This has no basis in reality. The reddit administrators made a sudden and unexpected move (firing the admin) which made a large community of moderators angry and the perceived injustice and lack of transparency. In response said community of moderators decided to make a sudden and unexpected move (privatizing subreddits) WITHOUT ANY COORDINATION OR INPUT FROM THE USERS. I'm fine with the idea of a protest, but take a look at any other protest in the past and it involves putting up sticky notices, sometimes for weeks ahead of time, so the users can talk about it and be aware. This all happened in less than 24 hours. Spreading the message that reddit users are somehow on board with this before the fact is just idiotic and, frankly, dishonest.