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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Regarding alternatives, I remember for a little while NymVPN was considered a hot item and then suddenly crickets. Did something happen to make folks disinterested in them? I do think they're pretty heavily involved in cryptocurrencies, but I could be misremembering.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Claiming immigration policy in general is fascist is just an ignorant perversion of the word that lessens its weight.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The fascist dog whistle is the word "re-immigration", it's just another word for ethnic cleansing.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

But that's such a vague term that it's meaningless to draw any conclusion without seeing what the proposal is.

For example, is the re-immigration voluntary or forced? To what degree does it apply? For example, is it just for illegal immigrations, legal immigrants, or does it also include naturalized citizens? Is it race, ethnicity, religious based, or is it based on universal secular principles? Does it ensure safety of the people re-immigrating? There is a lot to it.

Depending on this is implemented, there might not be any issue with it at all. For example, I'm an Iraqi immigrant in the US. I have a lot of family in Sweden. There are a lot of Iraqi immigrants who don't like living in Sweden and would like to return to Iraq, however, they can't either because they lack the means to do so or they're not sure if their safety is guaranteed. There are people who like Sweden, but want to return to Iraq anyway because they think its better, but they're afraid they might lose their Swedish immigration status and benefits. I feel like its reasonable to have a program in place to assist these people return to their home countries if they so desire it.

On the flip side, there are some people who don't deserve to be there. For example, there's a lot of people there who have had their asylum cases rejected for either being violent criminals or doing some other shady activities, but they still got there anyway by smuggling themselves in to the country illegally. There's a lot, and I mean, A LOT, of people there who are only because of fraudulent asylum cases. These people used fake documents, fake cases, and even fake relatives to get into the country. I feel like it's reasonable for any country to deport people like this because they're criminals who aren't supposed to be in the country in the first place.

There's also cases where it depends on the case. For example, there are quite a lot of people who went to Sweden specifically just to leech off of their generous welfare benefits. These are people who could work, study, learn the language, and assimilate, but they actively refuse to do so. Instead they pretend that they're disabled and desperate in order to collect government benefits indefinitely. I think the most egregious of these cases, should be grounds for deportation. There are some individuals who got there legally and for genuine reasons but they committed after getting their immigration status, I think the more heinous cases where the crime is something like rape or murder, that should also be ground for deportation. There also quite a lot of people who genuinely hate Sweden. Not in the sense, they dislike the lifestyle or don't understand the culture, but in the sense that they want to see the country destroyed. A lot of these tend be the more religious nut types who go out of their way to undermine Swedish laws, freedoms, and culture, get involved with extremist groups, and incite hate and extremist acts. I think these people should also be on the radar of such a program, where they forcibly deport the criminals and try to talk with the most incompatible individuals about consider re-immigrations.

I personally know people who fall into every single one of these situations, that's why I used them as examples. I think it's reasonable for Sweden to have comprehensive policy to address it. In fact, I think it would be naive and damaging to pretend there is no issue and do absolutely nothing. Immigration policy is not fascism, that's just basic sovereignty. It only becomes fascism when they try to relocate people who don't want to leave and haven't done anything wrong just because of their race, ethnicity, or religion. But this is only an extreme scenario, and i think it's foolish to pretend that all immigration policy is this type of fascism because it's not.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that Sweden allows individuals to donate that much. Million dollar contributions from a single person should not be legal anywhere.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One thing they would, and have done, to avoid a single large donation is they spread it out among friends, family and organizations.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The wiki for the Örebro Party actually describes it as not identifiable as left or right and the founder was actually far left. It also advocates for things like free dental care and anti-corruption. So things aren't as simple as purely anti-immigration which is very populist in Sweden.

The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus Allard, who is also the first party leader. Allard had previously held positions as substitute member of the Örebro municipal council and district chairman of the Young Left in Örebro; in December 2013 he was expelled from the Left Party and its youth wing Young Left for "liking" the Revolutionary Front, a militant revolutionary socialist and anti-fascist organization, on Facebook and refusing to disavow it when questioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party

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[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's up with every VPN company being facist right wing fucks?!

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

*every executive

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago
  1. Buying and selling security appeals to their mindset.
  2. There's a lot of money in it, and the ultra rich favor the right.
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mullvad was dead to me when they pussied out and took away port forwarding. That's how I knew they were compromised

[–] sureshot0@discuss.online 6 points 1 day ago

What VPN do you use, if any?

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

That's the joint, that's the jam Turn that shit up, play it again

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.

[–] bob@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's your thoughts and the general opinion of this party? It seems to have been called left and right wing.

I did see reports that Allard allegedly called Somalian immigrants parasites and wants mass remigration.

His views on immigration seem bad, but I'm wary of this being media sensationalism to ruin the reputation of mullvad because they don't want people using VPNs.

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[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 230 points 2 days ago (41 children)

God bloody dammit. I genuinely LOVE Mullvad and have tried to use their (not so cheap) services. I feel in this economy, privacy comes at a price and I was happy to do this.

Now, I realise my money is going to fund a POS far-right asshole.

Proton supports Trump.

Mullvad suports the far right.

Is there any major privacy respective service provider that isn't a bloody cunt?

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 91 points 2 days ago (20 children)

also thought mullvad was legit. also want to know if there's any alternative

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[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

[Örebro Party leader] Allard has described himself as a Communist, and a Marxist

A self-described communist promoting right-wing ideas? Lemmy is quite familiar with that concept.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 43 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How can the national socialist party be right wing? They said they're socialists!

/s fucking obviously I hope.

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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Thanks guys for posting this and for suggesting alternatives. I'll look into airvpn I guess. Fuck anyone who wants to make society worse by giving into their worst character traits and base instincts.

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 115 points 2 days ago (18 children)

As a Swede - fuck that guy and the fucking Neo Nazis coming out of the goddamn woodwork everywhere. I was all-in on Mullvad, but that's changing today. Anyone got a good recommendation for a DNS over HTTPS alternative that's not owned by a racist/Nazi/Fascist asshole?

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

God. Fucking. Dammit.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So Mullvad is over. What's the next best VPN?

I literally just ran out of time on my subscription too lol.

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[–] plsnerf7@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago
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