cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/30934764

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    Cancelled my Proton subscription citing this as the reason. Hope others do the same. This administration is not normal and relations should never be normalized with them.

  • Godort@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    “We’re not liberal or conservative, we’re a secret third thing!(conservative)”

    • They’re swiss.

      We have more parties in our equivalent of the presidential office than you have parties in total.

      I have huge problems with this notion that you have to be either democrat or conservative. They don’t even cover 50% of the opinions I, a green-liberal (actual liberal, not US-definition), hold.

      You’re absolutely able and allowed to have your own opinion different from what any party official says.

      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        When commenting on US politics, they should be aware of US political realities though. When taking position relative to US politics, they should be aware of that. At the very least, they should comment that they’re progressive or something along the lines of “Our political orientation isn’t represented in US politics” to acknowledge that, like you did.

        But when your CEO endorses Republicans, pretending you’re neutral isn’t a good look.

        • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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          2 months ago

          Don’t forget, Swiss Neutrality is the special kind of neutrality that lets them store gold bullion made from Jewish tooth fillings.

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    2 months ago

    I’ve been looking in to degoogling and was considering Protonmail before this. Does anybody know of a good alternative? Espeically one that lets you have multiple email addresses?

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I bit the bullet this month & bought a domain so I can assign mail handling and change providers without changing my email address. Currently using https://purelymail.com/ because they’re $10/year for as many addresses & domains as you want “within reason.” It’s apparently just one guy with some AWS instances, but it was very straightforward to set up.