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"'I don’t like that he made this donation' — Mullvad CEO reacts to co-founder’s donation to controversial Swedish populist party" (www.techradar.com)
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[–] digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

ffs - first Proton, now this.

I've never liked the idea that I have to trust my VPN, and this news raises a pretty significant trust issue. Makes me think I've been approaching this from the wrong angle.

Anyone have experience with the TOR daemon?

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 3 points 1 hour ago

This is way worse than what Yen did. This guy donated a lot of money to a party that explicitly pushes demigration policies, and if there was any doubt that this was a motivating factor for the donation, he later said he felt those policies were necessary. That's understandable to not want to give your money to someone who you know is going to go bankroll demigration politics with some of your money.

Yen praised the Republicans at large over an anti trust pick.

I think the other criticisms of Proton's policy changes are valid, and everyone has different standards for what is enough to divest from a company I guess, but I've heard people calling Yen a fascist sympathizer for that statement, and that's just divorced from reality imo.

[–] joker125@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I’m out of the loop. What happened with proton?

[–] digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Public statements of support from its CEO for a regime actively weaponizing technology to build a mass-surveillance state.

Removing its no logging policy after being compelled by court order to log and disclose a user’s IP and browser fingerprint.

Personally, I gave up on Proton after they amended their TOS to include a mandatory arbitration clause, including a ban on class action lawsuits. IMO only the dirtiest of corporations rely on mandatory arbitration clauses. Without the spectre of a class action lawsuit, if a VPN were to get caught breaking its promises to its users, the only real damage the company would likely suffer would be reputational. These are for-profit corporations. The only way we can hold them accountable is to put their profits at risk.

edit: looks like @oce beat me to it