Oh shit he was a Trump apologist already in 2016. Look at this awesome whataboutism.
https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy
It is not Trump’s fault
It is tempting to blame all this on Trump, but that is taking the easy way out. All Trump does is put a new face on the existing privacy problem, so now it concerns a segment of the population that previously didn’t care as much. Proton Mail users have always come from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. Today, we are seeing an influx of liberal users, but Proton Mail has also long been popular with the political right, who were truly worried about big government spying, and the Obama administration having access to their communications. Now the tables have turned.
The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time. The left is correct to be terrified of a Trump-led NSA snooping on their communications, especially since Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook can be forced to spy on users on behalf of Trump’s NSA. However, this precedent was not set by Trump – he hasn’t even taken office yet. The first major incident of a US tech giant being complicit in US government spying actually took place in 2015 under the Obama administration(new window).
Can someone remind me about the terror campaigns we had against the political right before Trump was elected?
Can Trump’s incoming administration really be said to stand “for the little guys” when it’s full of millionaires and billionaires?
CEOs having a “who can suck off Trump best” contest?
This is how it’s feeling like, last few weeks. I’ll somehow need to justify keeping my proton plan
What Trump really means here is “big tech has run amok they need to kiss my ring first and then they can do whatever the fuck they like”. He has identified big tech companies as a key component to cement his future dictatorship and he is not wrong.
Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Not wrong there…
Yeah, that’s true. But going on to say ‘therefore support Trump’ is … not good.
I think it’s unwise for Proton to try to support any political party. Agreeing or disagreeing with decisions and policies is fair and good; but to say “this is the party who supports the little guy” is a bullshit and unnecessarily divisive.
For my fellow German readers: An affordable green alternative to Proton hosted in Berlin is Posteo. https://posteo.de/ 1€ / month to have your mail hosted by a non-shitty company is a small price.
This is unbelievably disappointing. Just canceled my annual membership (which was set to renew in ~2 weeks).
Looks like I’ll be moving to Tuta tomorrow.
Okay I’m researching tuta now … I have a 2 year sub already though. Was literally in the process of moving from Gmail. Self hosted is tough for me. I guess this is the new normal. Milkshake duck…
Fuck Proton than.
What’s a good alternative I can use?
God damnit. I just swotched to Proton this week
Riseup and Disroot are run by collectives, Tuta uses a similar business model to Proton, Mailbox.org + Guard looks decent as well and more open than either Proton or Tuta
Why are there no reports and outrage over the pick of Gail Slater? Doesn’t she fit the standard outrage mold? She does seem to be pretty vehemetly anti-big tech. She has driven monopoly cases against VISA, Google and Apple. Surprisingly sober choice as assistant attorney general.
If this is suppose to be “Full MAGA”, then i don’t understand where you draw lines.
It seems the guy keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself. Sigh…
By the “little guys” he means himself.
By himself he means corporate CEOs.
Well, if he means tech companies that generally get smothered by unfair competition due to tech monopolies, as I believe he does, he is right to refer to them as the little guy.
Also let’s not forget that he is the tech CEO of a company which offers great products that don’t harm users, that raised tons of money for other nonprofits in the privacy space and that ceded control to a nonprofit to ensure they stay consistent with those values. He is for sure not a regular Joe, but comparing him to a regular corporate CEO is disinformation IMHO.
I migrated my custom domains to Tuta and canceled my Proton subscription as a result of all of this.
And Proton had fucking better give me a prorated refund.
I need to do this. I hope I can get my money back but they can choke on it if not I guess.
Way different stance than 8 years ago.
I checked archive and it wasn’t saved to the wayback machine so I added it in case proton deletes it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250115163936/https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy
I don’t think it’s way different. Yeah he’s not praising Trump here, but he’s certainly not taking a stance against him either, more trying to calm down worried people about Trump being in control now.
That’s a nice one to rub Andy’s nose in. I’ll put that one in my cancellation note.
Fucking pathetic
