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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
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Ugh.
I really do not care which ideological basis they use to suck up to fascists.
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.
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.
https://archive.ph/quYyb
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.