The Alabama governor is then going to fuck around and find out. He's not above the law and failure to comply with a court order could result in prosecution.
Have you thought about a distro like Arch or Slackware? Or even a BSD like OpenBSD? My 2nd cousin got me into Unix-like operating systems through Slackware and OpenBSD. In 1998, he bought me a used Pentium 133mh for my birthday. From there I learned the command line by learning how to install, configure, and use these operating sysytems.
Does MLS encrypt or obfuscate metadata? End-to-end encryption really only provides value if it is impossible to be able to use the communication's metadata to deduce the purpose, origin, and destination of the message.
I hope that Starbucks' workers do not give up the fight until all of the front line employees are unionized.