Yeah, it's an interesting experiment and democracy and or authoritarianism. Subreddit mods have made the decision to take the subs private. There seems to be some popular support but it isn't Universal. Those that don't care about the issue can recreate those subs and continue posting.

It will be interesting to see how things play out over time.

Edit: is interesting to note the knee jerk negative reaction to this comment. I don't think it contains anything controversial and is a simple statement of reality