In point of fact picketing is congregating outside a business or venue and trying to persuade people from not entering. If the person wants go in, he or she still can. Reddit is not paying anyone but their employees, wage theft does not apply. Look, IDK if you are trying to navigate me into a position where I claim that the protest or being angry at reddit is not valid, that is not the case. What I'm saying, making the community suffer or to be less dramatic making the community pay for it, is not the answer and it is certainly not the answer to be vindictive against users who want to continue using reddit. Us being on this new platform, is a proper protest, the loss of numbers and that this growing community represents and others like, that is what counts. Having this dismissive attitude and almost dislike (That is how it comes across) and lack of empathy for those who despite all, want to remain in the reddit community or more to the point the subreddit community is something I am not behind and can't understand or condone. Welcome and invite them to join here, persuade them with compelling arguments but punishing them is the way.

If you were to protest Piggly-Wiggly grocery store, you would do so by not going there and not by tampering their products or blocking people from entering the store. And your second argument can be turned around to the actual reddit protest itself, like you said reddit is not important so it is equally unimportant, technically speaking, what they are charging for their API. Fact however is, people use reddit, so we are back at the beginning. Protest is fine, put to punish users who still want to use reddit is not.

Who are you protesting? The users of reddit or reddit? You are here and I am here, we are protesting reddit with our actual feet so to speak. The ones who want to stay behind, that is their right and who are we to punish them?

That is a bad and vindictive point then, since the reddit users are not the ones who wronged you.

I'm not defending reddit as a corporate entity, I "defending" its users and the community and argue against punishing them to punish reddit.