I didn't really understand the meaning of the "missing canary" until I looked into it, but people are speculating it's the result of a classified request for information on a user by the NSA/FBI/etc. Previously, when the canary was still in the transparency report, it was as of January 29, 2015 that no types of these actions had been taken.I figured it was probably when gwern(and there were possibly other users, not sure) were subpoena'd. I'm not positive of the timeframe, but I believe it was following the Evo exit scam; there may have been a few smaller markets busted at that time, too? My memory is a little hazy of last year. Please post your input and let us know what you think
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No. Gwern's subpoena wasn't a secret.
The canary died because Reddit can't comment at all about whatever information they were forced to provide. Exact opposite of gwern's situation.