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Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings) (medium.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I heard people claim for some time that Proton supports the Trump administration. I've only ever really seen the claim made based on a single tweet.

This person did a pretty deep dive and comes to the conclusion that they don't, nor does their CEO.

I'm not saying I know what's in that guy's head, nor do I want to. But I'm wary of coming to an extreme conclusion about someone because of a couple of sentences that person wrote online.

https://io.waxandleather.com/users/alisynthesis/statuses/115245340493250991

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

This article should be pinned to the sidebar to be referenced every time people jump on the "omg proton so bad" bandwagon based on one out of context excerpt from that tweet that everyone seems to love to bring up but without actually doing any further research into the subject.

Hopefully people will actually read this and adjust their opinions accordingly rather than just repeatedly jumping on that stupid, ill informed bandwagon!

[–] entwine@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago

This article was written by an anonymous/throwaway Medium account. For all we know, it was written by a PR firm they hired. Corporate propaganda has zero credibility, and the anonymity makes it impossible to verify that it's anything else.

And if anything, now that time has proven that Trump/Vance were, in fact, worse than everyone was saying, it's further reason to hate Proton for using their influence/reach to support them. Did it help them win the whitehouse? Hard to say, but even in the best case scenario, it comes off as a lame, opportunistic move to advertise their services to MAGA and profit off political turmoil.

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