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(Nov 2016 Proton Blog) "The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time." (proton.me)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/protonprivacy

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It is not Trump’s fault

It is tempting to blame all this on Trump, but that is taking the easy way out. All Trump does is put a new face on the existing privacy problem, so now it concerns a segment of the population that previously didn’t care as much. Proton Mail users have always come from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. Today, we are seeing an influx of liberal users, but Proton Mail has also long been popular with the political right, who were truly worried about big government spying, and the Obama administration having access to their communications. Now the tables have turned.

The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time. The left is correct to be terrified of a Trump-led NSA snooping on their communications, especially since Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook can be forced to spy on users on behalf of Trump’s NSA. However, this precedent was not set by Trump – he hasn’t even taken office yet. The first major incident of a US tech giant being complicit in US government spying actually took place in 2015 under the Obama administration(new window).

Can someone remind me about the terror campaigns we had against the political right before Trump was elected?

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 100 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The political right never faced any terror, except for their own paranoid delusions. Everything in this post is a lie because it's all based on that one central lie, constantly lyingly reinforced, making it less legitimate with each pass.

Now, everybody else is going to be facing those same idiots' paranoid delusions in meddling government form, which is something the right never had to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

False. The political right faces terror that people will call them idiots for their shitty views. And a few face terror that the majority of humans will do a double take at wealth inequality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The political right produces a lot of people who shoot at other political right figures...

Thats something to be scared of?