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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What's up with every VPN company being facist right wing fucks?!

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 14 points 3 weeks ago

*every executive

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. Buying and selling security appeals to their mindset.
  2. There's a lot of money in it, and the ultra rich favor the right.
[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I believe it's the libertarian and hyper-individualist mindset. The founder of Proton is a bit screwy too. I think tech and IT generally attracts people who like simple rule based systems, and who will focus on such thinking instead of messy complex sociological ideas. They are smart but they are stupid in the sense that they lack the intellectual infrastructure to accept that they are not just individuals but the latest iteration of a very messy species.

The other reason is that to get to the top in capitalism, you need a certain mindset of exploiting others. It's very hard to get rich if you're even wasting time thinking of how it affects others. So the shits rise to the top.