The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

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  • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    It’s like one of the founders of Mullvad VPN (very very rich OG Swedish hacker from way back when) came out as supporting a serious right wing nationalist party in Sweden a couple months back, he paid them like $500K to make sure they stayed in politics and won.

    They are the best VPN, but I’m not coming back once my subscription expires.

    What is even happening? Are we seeing something like a return to lead poisoning, but there some chemical in our environment that’s rotting people’s brains the same way but we don’t know about it just like we didn’t know about lead at first?

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      It’s the corrosive force of capital

      We have too many people gaining power divorced from consequences

      • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        All right windscribe.

        Thing is with Mullvad is that I know for a fact that they don’t keep logs. The cops raided their place twice and they learned after that that there’s no point. They let them in and do whatever they wanted- they knew they wouldn’t find anything.

        That type of trust is hard to come by.

        Fuck nazis man, they infect the best of us. Such a copout. I suppose it’s something about… They get sentimental in their old years and remember a country that is no longer there- I feel that shit too, but I don’t get caught up in nationalist cosplay and LARP parties about it, shit changes, we need to fight for it without being fucking nazis. There’s a middle road here I feel.

        Sorry, I just got rambling, didn’t mean to, but damn.