This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
All private financing of political parties and politicians everywhere must stop.
Just as religion and state must be separated so must politics and money. If you hold more than $10 million in assets you don't get to influence politics. It's one or the other, not both.
i mean, that's not quite how it worked for me. politics (at least the kind i did) is basically getting the people with $10 million or more in assets to donate to and get involved with their communities. we had to trade some favors (there are a few musicians on the board who lend their services for such instances. most of the time it was that, once or twice it was "teach my fuckup kid how to work"), but we got funding for homelessness services.
if we couldn't trade those favors, we wouldn't have any homeless shelters in my county. they ran off grants mostly (during democrat administrations. during republican administrations, we ran off hope and loan forgiveness), but they can't expand without extraordinary help. which unfortunately takes politicking (which i hate, but they wanted me doing it)
Then your state is not capable of taxing those with money to extract the value it needs to run said country...
Why do we need private money to fix public things because the politic-people can't be bothered to look anywhere but the next donation goal.
This isnt a donation but a "Pretty please, pay me a standard contractor rate in the disguise of a 'donation'".
Man I hate this illusionary and superficial bullshit
Would be fun to know who's sponsoring this smear campaign. After all, Mullvad has been stepping on many toes with their pro-privacy advocacy and enablement. I'd put my money on some combination of Thorn, Palantir, and whatever other surveillance capitalism corpos there are who'd benefit from less protected populace, both in policy and technology...
Why do you think it's a smear campaign? Did he not donate?
ffs - first Proton, now this.
I've never liked the idea that I have to trust my VPN, and this news raises a pretty significant trust issue. Makes me think I've been approaching this from the wrong angle.
Anyone have experience with the TOR daemon?
This is way worse than what Yen did. This guy donated a lot of money to a party that explicitly pushes demigration policies, and if there was any doubt that this was a motivating factor for the donation, he later said he felt those policies were necessary. That's understandable to not want to give your money to someone who you know is going to go bankroll demigration politics with some of your money.
Yen praised the Republicans at large over an anti trust pick.
I think the other criticisms of Proton's policy changes are valid, and everyone has different standards for what is enough to divest from a company I guess, but I've heard people calling Yen a fascist sympathizer for that statement, and that's just divorced from reality imo.
"I like this burger made by fascists. I'm going to keep eating this burger, I don't care where it came from or where my money buying the burger goes to."
So many comments here sound like this, geez. Same people saying "we can be friends, can't we, even if our politics differ?" Morality and respecting humans isn't politics. And no. We can't.
Also, yes, enforcing racial and national purity (remigration) is, in fact, fascist ideology. Get over it. It's not extreme, it's calling a spade a spade. https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847
Hey just FYI you wouldn't be saying any of this unless you knew about the donation. What grocery store do you shop at?
The irony of these holier-than-thou lemmy folks using a term like "calling a spade a spade"
"be 100% pure, organic, free-range, antifascist like me, otherwise we cant be friends or have discussions at all!!!"
Then do something by promoting alternatives, stop being lazy
https://www.xda-developers.com/replaced-entire-proton-subscription-with-free-private-apps/
i mean, while there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, why does it seem like so many people are trying their hardest to rack up the most unethical consumption? Like there's a counter somewhere or something idk.
that was rhetorical, i know why. fucking cern weasels.
Also it’s a damn VPN. Pick another one. It’s not even like they can use the excuse that it’s the best in the field (still not an excuse but loads better than, I just “like” it)
A very small percentage of vpns can be classed as decent, especially if you are in the southern hemisphere. I requested my refund from mullvad today, my replacement option is?
It only benefits Mullvad if I walk away right now. I've got ~200 days left on my prepaid account. Hopefully in the next 200 days i'll find a better or equivalent VPN service with CEOs that have yet to come out as complete shit-bags.
I believe they said they would offer refunds if that's what you're referring to by the 200 days
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/06/30/mullvad-browser-vpn-options-after-controversy/
There is no middle ground to be had with Nazis. It's us or them. If the Nazi won't leave Mullvad, then I will leave as a customer. Simple as
"I don't like co-owning a nazi bar." Well, boohoo, grow a spine and do something about it.
lol. Yes.
I will sign up for Mullvad tomorrow if he actually does something meaningful about it.
I haven't even looked up the price, but I'll keep my word.
Only I won't have to, because the odds are this guy is another spineless piece of shit.
Wikipedia - is as always - doing a great job at gathering info and they wrote down what the party's policies are.
IMHO what they propose makes no sense:
How is that economy supposed to work? Where do you get the money from to finance this? Who should offset the missing work?
A $500k donation can bankroll your party for some time but certainly not an entire country...
They are chasing votes from self absorbed people, it has always been a thing, but more people are getting into the scam globally now.
