Wants a more resilient internet. Has no presence on the resilient fediverse.
That blog reads like an ad for Proton.
Meanwhile, please use proton mail, proton vpn, proton storage, proton pass and proton docs.
It’s like when I read this book on how apple cider vinegar cures everything.
It’s just an ad disguised as a blog post.
Did proton fire Andy yet?
Cause his ass still licking the Trump boot.
He literally just went “Hey, I’m really happy you made this actually good decision for customers when noone in the past was willing to”. This is a completely valid point even if Trump is a fascist asshole. So to refrence voltaire: Can you stop being the enemy of good?
TLDR: my conclusion is that it is far more likely that Proton and its CEO are actually liberals.
Ugh.
I really do not care which ideological basis they use to suck up to fascists.
But, like… how exactly are they sucking up to fascists?
The Trump administration can fuck directly off, but the article paints a picture of Proton distinct from the narrative I was originally spun.
Saying something you don’t agree with isn’t automatically “sucking up to fascists” and jumping there over nearly nothing just dilutes the message where it is actually applicable.
You shouldn’t need a long analysis that picks apart public statements and interprets them in a specific context to conclude that they probably didn’t mean it the way it is obviously interpreted by anyone reading it.
It’s not hard to be outspoken against fascism. Proton likes to forward themselves as visionaries, yet they completely fail to. Maybe they privately think Trump is an idiot, but I don’t care. Resistance needs to be public in order to exist at all, especially when coming from actors like Proton.
Praising tweets by Trump wis sucking up to fascists. Had this tweet been contextualized with a long history of effective public opposition to the Trump regime I would have been willing to accept contextualization. It is not.
You shouldn’t need to dismiss evidence that contradicts your assumptions just to maintain them.
A long opinion piece is indeed useless. A long analysis is how you suss out truth.
Also, documented company spending != picking apart public statements.
I’m pretty sure several of you didn’t actually read the article.
That sounds like the typical libertarian excuse used when they aren’t amongst fellow conservatives but trying to come off as not on the side being criticized.
Better defense would be saying yeah Andy may or may not want to be part of the inner circle like Tim Cook who is bending the knee to Trump for more money even though people know he isn’t racist or against lgbtq. And sure he chose to ignore that Slater worked for the Internet Association maybe hoped people wouldn’t dig further and chose to portray Republicans as being more the party of the little guy, because he may or may not have wanted to be part of the new tech inner circle with Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos by publicly signaling praise.
But, the company itself is not in the US so hopefully that keeps things from getting worse even though the company chose to double down making the statement again from Protons official account so it became not just a Yen statement but a Proton one before deleting everything when response wasn’t what they hoped of people joining in on the praise. So maybe they learned their lesson and will go back to focusing on proton products as opposed to political endorsements.
Basically more than 75% of that anonymous totally not Andy Yen article is nothing but fluff going look how not racist and homophobic he is when that stuff does not matter in the least bit when billions are potentially involved as best demonstrated by Tim Cook. That article is like the golden example of identity politics with how it brings it up to shift attention away from Slater endorsement despite her history with the Internet Association infringing among privacy of consumers and Republican whitewashing as the party of the little people.
Sounds like an awful lot of conjecture… based seemingly off of a simple desire to not admit that the kneejerk reaction here may have been overblown.
Nowhere does this address the poor handling of the situation from proton, with their lacklustre response on Reddit after pulling out from Mastodon due to people being rightfully upset.
This falls under the same bullshit that Framework has with its “big tent” fiasco.
Giving Nazis the boot shouldn’t be controversial.
Once again it’s a reminder to not put your eggs in one basket.
What? It like directly addresses it and then expands on it.
That anonymously submitted medium article that gets floated around ignores Internet Association, so wouldn’t be shocking if it was from proton attempting to do PR damage fixating on identity politics with intentional omission of Internet Association involvement.
Yen conveniently ignored that after working at the FTC, Slater become the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association lobby group. Which was founded by “small business” like Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook.
And involved in trying to infringe upon privacy rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act
So yeah, proton founder cherry picked information that tried to make it seem like it was acceptable to praise the pick when reality her past is too murky to endorse.
Apple Tim Cook showed that ideology doesn’t matter when monetary greed is involved, so falling to look how not intolerant Yen just comes off as a diversion from the criticism regarding him choosing to praise Slater by omitting details of her history that didn’t fit the pro consumer narrative for the little guy.
