cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8915892
(original article in Swedish that reported this)
Posting this because I hadn't heard about it before and I'm probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.
The party claims to stand for a "class-conscious populism" which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[...]
The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.
Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)
Even if you're comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.
I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it's not great
clearly you don't know how Mullvad works
Enlighten me how under a fascist takeover it couldn't be undermined to track undesirables... even if, the owner is a fascist?! Clearly your life wouldn't be in danger when tracked by a fascist...
Technically they could be lying about their privacy policy, and technically it's not impossible that they've colluded with the government to lie about police finding nothing in raids, and saying "well they will lie about it because they're fascists" is myopic and stupid. Moreso than being fascist, they're fanatical about privacy. I guess it's possible for them to switch their entire infrastructure up to make verbose permanent logs on hard drives instead of running on RAM, but I feel like if they were doing that we'd be seeing a lot more pedophiles getting caught sharing CP
Why?
and they will be forever and ever? There's one move fascists have, coast on good will until it's time for the rug-pull. A lot of fascists started out genuinely believing in some cause but sooner or later they all turn. What with contradictions sharpening and all
Because you don't know anything about the infrastructure of their operation. It's as yet impossible for them to track traffic through their servers.
As long as it's one guy making personal donations and not the company as a whole, yes
Enlighten me then? Simply calling others stupid and playing coy with your argument isn't that convincing an argument.
that "one guy"? Oh he owns half the company, and we are very happy to run this operation with him don't worry about him.
Did you click any of the blue text in that comment? I feel like their privacy policy is all the enlightenment you need. And what do you expect Strömberg to do, sell his half of the company and let it be entirely controlled by Berntsson? He can't exactly kick Berntsson out
Oh the privacy policy?? The thing that they could just update, revoke entirely or even just ignore??
not to do business with nazi's is not a big ask for most people... he owns half the company for crying out loud there is so much damage he could cause, or threaten to cause instead of sending out a mail thats just "we at mullvad don't like to be seen as nazis but what people heil on their own time is their business"