nah, it was the loud, entitled, and obnoxious protesters who chose to react to reddit's policy change by shutting everything down and throwing feces everywhere. none of them own reddit, but they were able to gatekeep an entire community and the public by shutting down access to subreddits.
i hate to break it to everyone, but reddit isn't owned by any of you. it has the right to change it's terms of use.
spez didn't even blink. all the protesters did was make the last 30 days miserable for everybody.