I trust my billion-dollar a year law firm’s VPN to block out this nonsense; we've got clients who are way more worried about our security than the government sniffing around.
Well, sure, but reddit (and FB, and Insta, and discord, and bluesky and mastadon and twitter and just about everything else out there, probably including Lemmy) are privately owned. Their sandboxes. Now, something like IRC or Usenet (which I still miss) is another matter.
...anymore? When my mother worked there (admittedly, decades ago), the catholic chaplain conducted mass every Friday morning. (Very quickly. "GodblessAmenGetbacktowork.") They also had other religion's services. Nothing mandatory.
I think newsweek had this, so, no.