Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it’s an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!

    • sudneo@lemm.eeBanned from community
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      11 months ago

      It’s not even a matter of “thinking” that, it’s basically what he said. All his “siding” is in the context of antitrust and breaking tech monopolies. I don’t think trump will do much in this space, but dems didn’t do much either. If Trump will (the election is over anyway, so we are not discussing of choosing trump for this) it’s good, even if it comes from the Trump administration.

    • funnyguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      this is true! it’s not that he loves donald trump and hates wokeism. it’s that he’s focused on his own class interests.

      as a member of the ruling class it’s his prerogative to gain more capital, and as a “small” tech company it’s within his interests to weaken the big FAANG (or whatever the new acronym is) companies. he’s hoping to supplant them with his own services (Which is why protonmail has expanded their services so much in recent years)

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      This. Fuck Trump, but he does occasionally do good things, even if for all the wrong reasons. NAFTA was terrible for labour. That’s not why he hated it, though.

      And taxing imported oil is great. Though we need to tax or ban domestic carbon extraction too.