Protest may change this instance, it may not. I think you're reading things in that I didn't say.

I'm saying that no amount of protest, no matter how well meaning, will undo the damage that has been done because of the hamfisted way that this has been gone about to legitimate law enforcement efforts which are ongoing all the time to catch ACTUAL illegal activity. RP journals are RP journals and they get deleted all the time for various reasons and they get resurrected here or elsewhere just as quickly.

The people that this was supposed to be intended to catch? They're not going to get caught by this, but they ARE going to hide themselves deeper.

Protest might affect the RP journals, it won't affect that.