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Except politics, actually, can change the service. For example, surrendering data in secret. Or installing backdoors.
Not that I think Proton is gonna do that (or at least hope so), but thinking "why would I care about politics, they don't affect the app on a technical level" is incredibly naive and potentially incorrect.
With an over-the-top example, it's kinda like saying "why should I care about the politics of my landlord after they support the "Increase Tenant's Rent" party, it doesn't change the service"
Unless the governance structure agrees to it they can’t and even the we vaj sue them for abusing a Swiss non profit
If your threat model depends of political idiologies then you should reconsider your threat model.
If a person signals loyalty to a criminal government which is violating the rights of its people daily, why would I trust them not to cooperate with that government when they ask for a backdoor to be installed? Conservatives are simply not trustworthy. They're lying, backstabbing, and manipulative. They have no principles at all and will say or do anything to acquire more power and money
So why do you trust any company? Every company has people like that employed. Do you make a political-views check on every employee of a company before choosing your product?
Call me crazy, but I think there is a bit of difference between the average worker, and CEOs, investors and execs, in terms of hability to sway the company one way or another.
And that’s why you need to have a governance structure to prevent that BS. Putting a non profit above it with 3 people who together have to make decisions that to them seem to be the best for the mission will make it really hard to start being a Nazi al besudden.
Because his power is limited? He cannot just change policy on a dime
Trump is the peak example that they can, in fact, just change policy on a dime, laws and constitution be dammed.
The US is not the same as Switzerland lol
Fair point