Warrant canaries appear to be usable by large US companies - Reddit in this case

From the deductive-reasoning department Arthur Dent '99 writes: Today, Reddit deleted wording in its

Here and there someone pokes their illogical head up and says "Warrant canaries can't work" or "warrant canaries will get you introuble with the law" or some variation on the theme. It boggles me fookin marnd, it do. Perhaps this story can help massage some of those mental tensions... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/01/0321257/reddit-deletes-surveillance-... "Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report transparency report that would normally indicate that they had not received any "national security letters" or "other classified requests for user information." Such "national security... " fooking fook!