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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!

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[–] SomeAmateur 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Large corporations like google have grown and thrived in Silicon Valley, supported by the politicians of California. So by extension they are partially responsible for enabling these companies to be the giants they are.

According to this article Google has funded 40 elected officials and spent $10.7 million in lobbying California's legislature and Governor this year alone.

If a president (even a shitty one) was considering putting a damper on companies like google, I would not be against that. We'll see if anything actually happens.

I'm not ditching Proton over one fucking tweet

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Trump fired Lina Kahn, so we know this is bullshit.

[–] MonkCanatella 3 points 1 day ago

Aww FUCK. I'm a huge proton pass user. I don't want to go looking for a replacement but if anyone knows an easier way to set up email aliases on the fly and reply to emails sent to that alias easily like I can w proton I would switch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

say what you will about trump. sure hes a small pathetic man. sure he is under musk and putin, but there are people under him. He may be a sycophant but he is the head sycophant.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My take is that a libertarian who thinks big government (or the spooky 👻 deep state) is out to get him is an attitude I want for the ceo of a privacy company.

If Trumps associates are going to jail for refusing to turn over passwords to their proton accounts, then I think the service is working.

Gonna be super funny when Trump turns on him anyways though, and bans proton from the US, because only his privacy actually matters.

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