The West which barely fought in WW2 and joined the Nazis was better off than the USSR which was ravaged by the Nazis? Along with the USSR combatting large scale CIA psyop campaigns we know existed?
Did you try asking the people in Western colonies how awesome their freedom was too?
Are you talking about Proton or AirVPN in your second paragraph?
They’re nowhere comparable. Proton’s case is relevant to their business and to VPN’s as a whole. Not just doing random private donations to Nazis. As they stated in response to the article:
Also objectively Proton would receive less money because they’re a lot cheaper.
Mullvad didn’t condemn the funding and the owner will certainly continue using profits from his company to fund far-right remigration efforts if he specifically chose that party instead of any other generic leftist party.
Also Mullvad is very expensive compared to other VPN’s to begin with. And Mullvad’s servers have been getting blocked everywhere lately so there’s no real reason to use it either. Might as well use AirVPN or the likes. I’m probably switching to Proton for ease of use but i might choose another sooner or later.
Companies are owned by the bourgeoisie, who are right wing[1]. So “voting with your dollar” over this is largely performative
Yet they will still respond to capital pressure in large enough numbers. In a broken system like capitalism that’s what holds power. If not you can write off BDS and any other type of boycotts.
Proton complimented one Trump policy about privacy which is stupid but they’re not donating to literal Nazi’s at least.
Tesseract OCR sucks hard anyways. PaddePaddle ocr is infinitely better
The “old map” excuse for Minab really seems like a copout and I don’t believe it.
Also Dario said it wouldn’t be a red line if Anthropic did it which isn’t the best of looks.
Mullvad is a premium VPN costing much more than alternatives and it doesn’t have promotions. This would be like paying top dollar to tank at Chevron.
The privacy VPN company which ran entirely on its reputation has now destroyed that very reputation at lightning speed because their CEO decided to publicly donate to a Nazi party
They also had left sounding, anti-capitalist propaganda
You mean like saying there will be socialism but for white people?
It’s just socialism bro. But nationally. And only for white people…
They praised a single Trump policy. Which isn’t nearly the same as donating to the Nazi party.
It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it.
If they don’t condemn donating to Nazis then they’re Nazi’s. Pretty clear. Proton VPN it is.
National Socialism you say?
For easy privacy the answer is Signal. If you want to put in effort then SimpleX or others seem better.
Matrix MIGHT be okay if you self host it, but I definitely wouldn’t trust the main Element hosted server. But the dev team sketches me out too hard so I’d just pick alternatives.
To be clear the notion that any of the two US parties would be better in any way than the other is just stupid. It’s all good-cop bad-cop. But at least Proton isn’t directly donating to any of them.