If the information flows via machines located in the US, NSA can get to the information at several levels.
Then it also depends how much of the law, NSA makes for itself.
Like any HN reader that lived through dictatorship governments can attest, what the law says and the secret services do, doesn't need to be in sync.
And opposing them, well, there are plenty of ways to change people's mind that the right way is to help them.
If this is the direction the government will carry on doing, good luck opposing them just by switching providers, without doing anything more active.
If the information flows via machines located in the US, NSA can get to the information at several levels.
Then it also depends how much of the law, NSA makes for itself.
Like any HN reader that lived through dictatorship governments can attest, what the law says and the secret services do, doesn't need to be in sync.
And opposing them, well, there are plenty of ways to change people's mind that the right way is to help them.
If this is the direction the government will carry on doing, good luck opposing them just by switching providers, without doing anything more active.