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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Privacy focused company praising a political party jailing opposition and citizens without due process, ignoring the rule of law, and generally grabbing power to maintain complete control.

Speaking as someone who currently has a proton account, I was super disappointed. Thought I was leaving Google for the Rebellion, then I found out Proton was happy the Death Star's construction was underway and doesn't understand why the dissolution of the Galactic Senate is a bad thing. I'll be leaving when my subscription expires.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wow. Iโ€™m a new Proton subscriber. This happened? Can you share a link or more details? Feeling disappointed, thought I found a good solution away from Google. Maybe Iโ€™ll look into Mozilla mail instead after my sub ends.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump appointed a anti-big-tech guy and the CEO of Proton praised trump (paraphrasing here "earlier the dems were the party of the small man, now the republicans are"). This was not an endorsement of Trump and only applied in the narrow context of the anti-big-tech appointment. But a lot of people didn't understand that context or ripped it out of that context and made it look like proton as a whole supports Trump.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Trying to be fair, Donald Trump is so surrounded by sycophants who ritualistically praise his every move or fear excommunication, it is really hard to tell whether a tweet is that, or a legitimately reasoned opinion with some historical consistency which is not an endorsement

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