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[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For the love of all gods, stop recommending Proton, it's run by a fascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards even more than Silicon Valley tech-bros. You might as well use American companies at that point.

[โ€“] accideath@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Thatโ€™s strong accusations and the first Iโ€™m hearing of that. Do you have a source? Because the only controversy I know of is that their CEO praised Trumpโ€™s pick for attorney general for the antitrust division a bit too enthusiastically. Which is not a stellar look but that does not make him a โ€žfascist Trump-loving cryptoscammer that hates open standards.โ€œ

[โ€“] Swarfega@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only place people are throwing up the whole Proton / Trump controversy is Reddit and Lemmy. Lemmy is particularly worse. As bad as the endless scrolling of Linux praise and Windows bashing.

There's an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thereโ€™s an article somewhere where someone did a deep dive and ultimately concluded that the Protons CEO views do not coincide with that of Trump or his party.

Would you have that link by any chance? That would be neat to use as a counter argument.

[โ€“] ezpz@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am assuming he means this post from the community you linked.

https://feddit.uk/post/24065032

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks!

The top comment on that thread seems to counter the arguments quite extensively

[โ€“] stardust@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah completely omitting Slater's work lobbying on behalf of big tech like Google and Facebook to increase data mining when the whole defense hinged on that she'd be good for little tech made the medium article seem more like it was from a corporate PR stream. So intentionally deceiving playing up identity politics or not doing its due diligence what a quick wikipedia and Google search of the person Yen glazed over would reveal.

Her past is too questionable for a privacy company to endorse. But, move from Google to proton is still an improvement at the end of the day with its country of origin being its strength despite whatever the founder ceo may think.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

he's not a hitler-loving Nazi he just really likes that Goebbels dude.

[โ€“] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk, it sounded more like โ€žMan, that Hitler dude sure put the right guy in charge of the Autobahn networkโ€œ.

Unless that Attorney General is indeed comparable to Goebbels. I dunno, I donโ€™t follow US politics that closely. Politics at home are already depressing enough.

[โ€“] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Idk, it sounded more like โ€žMan, that Hitler dude sure put the right guy in charge of the Autobahn networkโ€œ.

Unless that Attorney General is indeed comparable to Goebbels. I dunno, I donโ€™t follow US politics that closely. Politics at home are already depressing enough.

Edit: Also that only addresses his alleged fascism, but none of your claims about him being a cryptoscammer or against open standards.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This community has threads answering your question

[โ€“] accideath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Skimming through it I have only seen discussions about his praise of the trump administrations pick for attorney general for antitrust (which I already knew about). Havenโ€™t seen anything about crypto scams or dislike of open standards.

[โ€“] vegantomato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For the love of all gods

That's something a Skyrim NPC would say.