Last week it was revealed that Qwest Communications was one of the few major telecom companies that didn’t voluntarily provide customers records to the NSA, insisting instead that the NSA get a court order or at least an opinion from the Attorney General first.

The blogospheric fallout was predictable.  Liberals and civil libertarians applauded Qwest.  On the right, pundits accused Qwest of cooperating with terrorists, or at least facilitating them.

One good metric of how America feels about the NSA phone record-mining is whether people have since dropped their accounts from terrorist-loving Qwest, or changed their phone accounts to freedom-loving Qwest.

It looks like the latter:

“Oh yeah, it’s been busy around here,” said Becky. “We’ve been getting almost twice the normal amount and a lot of people switching their service.” According to Sandra, another representative, “A lot of people have switched over from their providers because they’re upset about AT&T and Verizon handing over records to the government.” None of the six representatives we interviewed could cite the opposite circumstance, a Qwest customer who dropped their service over the company’s stance.