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[–] SwordInStone 1 points 16 minutes ago

What is this about?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 45 minutes ago

Don't like it, move out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Scratch under the surface of every for profit privacy / anonymity service, you find shitty libertarian cryptobros who probably post racist memes on 4chan while whining about feminism in the man-o-sphere. That doesn't speak to the nature of people who care about privacy, it speaks to the nature of people who care about privacy and also want to do capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Except Proton AG is owned by a Non-Profit, the Proton Foundation. Andy Yen can't directly pocket the profits, except by asking the non-profit board of trustees to give him a raise in salary (and there's probably legal limitations to the salary, otherwise everyone could just claim to be a "Non-Profit" while secretly making profits).

[–] enbyecho 3 points 9 hours ago

Glad I cancelled. If the CEO is this clueless and/or and/or ignorant and/or disingenuous do I really want them responsible for my private data?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Totally in good faith. A post from last year? Yea, suck my dick andy. Deleting my account asap.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit 2 points 47 minutes ago

"hey guys social media manager here. It was all my fault. It's not our CEOs fault, at all. Just mine. Who am I? Well I can say my name definitely doesn't start with an A and end in a Y. Just little ol' faceless nameless me. Tee hee sorry."

[–] [email protected] 49 points 21 hours ago

Get. Off. Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As swiss person I have to meet and talk to this guy, he can not be that stupid!

We definitely have something like the republicans party, it is called SVP (Schweizerische Volkspartei). SVP uses exactly the same tactics as republicans, like anti “woke”, anti regulation, anti common media, pro hate-speech(“anti censorship”), etc.

We just not have a single party to counter it, like democrats, but like 10 parties with little nuances.

We have some small parties besides SVP “on the republican site” but those tend to be irrelevant. Maybe, the anti corona party has a some relevance, still, but I guess their power is sinking.

I personally support the pirate party, which mainly stands for privacy, no matter if left or right, but the party it self is leading to the left (democratic) side.

At least, that is how I understand our situation here.

[–] Doomsider 8 points 14 hours ago

I am sure he is very smart about a lot of things. Unfortunately US politics are not one of those things. I also suspect he is not that good at business considering he just alienated a lot of his customers.

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[–] victorz 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Tangential: shouldn't it be "Naziism"? Like, in "Nazi" the "i" belongs to "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", or the "Natio—" part. But shouldn't there be another "i" that goes with the "ism" suffix, so "Naziism"? Am I thinking about it in the wrong way?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or just fascism, nazi is a specific brand of fascism

[–] victorz 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm not talking about the ideology here, I'm talking about the linguistics of it all, specifically about the word "Nazism". 😊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Giorgio Galli ... the born of Nazism and please stop to rant about Trump and Nazism ... the Nazism did not born in Germany but in the civilized Vienna and in France, the young Hitler was having masters that did not seen a judge after the war and the heritage of them is still very much thriving in Bruxelles ... and really I am not here to lecture but to explore the web iceberg with freemind and happiness ... not to bother myself with these gross traces of ignorance ( very easy to be solved with 4-5 kilos of right books ).

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