>Given the controversy surrounding Proton's potential political leanings
Define the controversy and their leanings
Define the controversy and their leanings
Then when further asked about it, the CEO essentially said he didn't actually know much about the situation and hadn't meant it as an endorsement despite the original posts essentially being a one-sided attack on Democrats and all praise for the current administration, including @ mentioning Donald Trump. He also kept saying "my comments from last year" when they were from December and the controversy was in Jan.
At best it seems quite naive from Proton's side to think the administration where Musk, Zuckerberg, and Cook were front row at the inauguration, and was generally funded by Musk, Thiel, Bezos and a raft of other VC folks is going to be more aggressive at regulating big tech companies and for internet privacy in general. At worst, they're trying to curry favor with/actually in favor of the current administration and don't want to admit it because a lot of their value as a business is for people who don't want the government to see their data.
Proton is a Swiss company why the fuck is the CEO glazing an american fascist. Time to look for alternatives.
And as a user (less and less) of proton,it's been a slog,with technical problems on an android phone, impossible to resolve, years, multiple different phones, browsers....it's on there end, and there technical support , engages, but does nothing. And the pokbun does not load.
i was thinking tuta.com but did not do proper research yet.
Even outside of me thinking it was a poorly thought out endorsement, it's just so amazingly unnecessary. I follow journalists and activists around anti-trust and internet regulation and I literally hadn't heard about this appointment.
The spillover of American politics to the internet is the saddest thing I've encountered online as a non-American because they are trying to force us into right- and left- echo chambers they've created to make us think about politics like them.
Please don't fall for this trap of "us vs them".
I'm not an American and I don't want to trust my email to a company that supports a government that is threatening to annex my country.
This isn't culture war stuff it's just common sense. I didn't fall for some us vs them trap, the current US government is frequently and loudly telling me that it's me vs them.
Canada's sovereignty is not up for debate and we will not support a country that threatens us.
This means that we're not going to be buying nearly as many American goods, not going to be visiting America for tourism and not suffering the fools that you call politicians and diplomats.
As far as the average Canadian is concerned America can twist in the wind. The feelings of betrayal are real and won't be going away any time soon.
The world is tired of the inane histrionics and is moving on from America.