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2 Months old Post that i saw now: Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party (theintercept.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24846782

Summary

Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.

The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.

Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.

Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

@nuko147 I mean, that was economically the best thing they could do. Without the republicans and trump, the run on European alternatives and therefor for Protonmail wouldn’t be that strong like it is now 😅but yeah on a personal level that’s really rubbish.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The bad thing is that i learned about it after having migrating all my accounts from Google. I am feeling bad now, but there are many accounts and i can not really move again. Who the hell had the idea to connect every website account to an email in the 1st place. Seems a bit ancient mechanic right now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The actual solution to that is using your own domain for email which can then be transferred between providers. But yeah changing everything again is annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I have one custom domain email that used to be self hosted. I got so much spam which is what pushed me to move it to Google Suite like 8 years ago. It solved the problem, but now I’m scared to move it back. Is there a better way to deal with spam on self hosted options now?

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