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Unsurprising that a right-wing Trump supporting company is now attacking a tech that poses an existential threat to the fascist-leaning tech companies that are all in on AI.
Proton has always been sketchy - and I caught flak for it countless times, especially here. But: A company claiming they are "private' and "secure" because they operate under Swiss privacy laws is already sketchy from the beginning. Why? Because Swiss privacy laws suck,are the worst in Europe and Switzerland is a country known for multiple cases of major intelligence agency overreach - especially towards foreigners and cross-border traffic.
Legally the Swiss intelligence services can order any "service provider" (that includes proton) to provide them access to traffic coming from foreign countries - this also includes the mandate to provide "technical means", which is often seen as backdoors. And to make things better the service providers are not allowed to talk about it.
This alone is a problem. In Protons case what makes matters even worse is the fact that they are an US company de facto operating from the US and therefore are bound by the homeland security act and similar legislation.
So in the end both the Swiss and US services might read your data.
For clarity the company did not explicitly support Trump. They simply stated negative things about the "corporate dems" and praised the new republican party.
Ah my mistake, they didn't praise the fascist - just the fascist party. Big difference.
Exactly it's totally different.
And they never specifically praised the vice president they simply made some fucked up association that his attendance of an event meant he was on side contrary to pretty much every other indication that has ever been given.
whoosh
You might want to direct that elsewhere
You might not want to post apologia for a company defending a fascist party once, then doubling down, then trying to take it all back saying "it was a mistake to get political"
At no point did I state "it was a mistake to get political" that is a narrative entirely from your own imagination.
I made a sarcastic response to the opening comment. People didn't notice the sarcasm. No worries my sense of humour isn't overly obvious and I refuse to litter \s marks everywhere so I'm not too bothered if my comments are misinterpreted at times.
the opening commenter responds sarcastically.
I respond with another comment that's absolutely dripping with sarcasm and even explicitly call out Proton's bullshit. Somehow people still don't note the sarcasm and yet they understood the firadin's comment was sarcastic, odd but again I'm not too bothered.
Somebody implies I haven't understood a joke.
I try to delicately suggest I've been misunderstood. Again, I'm not too bothered.
Your response. Absolutely absurd.
At no point did I even defend the Nazis, at no point did I say or imply what you're quoting me as saying.
The most ridiculous thing is you accuse me of "apologia" on the same day I repeatedly call out the inappropriateness of Proton's stance because I got tired of reading so much "apologia":
The solace I do take from this is that at least people are aware of the insanity of the hill Proton have decided to die on.
Proton said it was a mistake to get political in their "official statement" responding to their other "official statement"
Ah, thanks for clarifying that. I definitely misinterpreted what you said.
I'm not sure I've even read Proton's latest reply in full.
When I saw it on reddit I just got annoyed by all the boot licking comments saying variations of "thanks for being so transparent".
I'm unlikely to believe any post incident damage control from Proton. Their CEO caused irreparable damage to their reputation. The only resolution is to remove him from his post.
I'm tired of seeing people claiming that alternatives are probably just as bad. That's irrelevant. the alternatives haven't betrayed the faith users place in them. and given the scale and nature of Proton as an organisation it's entirely reasonable to expect a higher standard of them.
They didn't really praise them. They just hoped that the republicans would go back to being against big tech (like they used to be 10 years ago he claims). Obviously, Trump's not going to do that but I think we can all agree big tech is a big problem
They explicitly said the Republicans were on the side of the little guy. I probably don't need to explain the awful shit that they're doing that showcases that that is not what they're doing.
Saying they're "fighting for the little guys" while at the same time shitting on their political opponent is a clear show of support.
Now I don't particularly care about the Proton CEO's opinions. My opinion of CEOs is that they're dickheads until proven otherwise. But when you publicly support this shit, and use your company's official accounts to back yourself up, it becomes a lot more egregious in my mind. And even worse when they pretend they're not actually doing that.
But his 'support' of the republicans was saying that 10 years ago they used to be against big tech and that he hoped Trump would vary that forward. Obviously Trump is very unlikely to do this but he is literally just hoping the republicans would do something about big tech that the dema didn't do