Thinking of starting media creation, want to have an email address dedicated to that purpose. Don’t want to go with Gmail as I’d like to phase Google out of my life, amd Protonmail seems incorrect for this because it largely wouldn’t be encrypted mail.
Recommendations?
The CEO of Proton recently came out as a right wing partisan who supports American neofascism. I would look elsewhere for email providers, Proton is not as trustworthy as they purport to be.
I would say he’s a right-wing “Libertarian” not a maga supporter. People like him say dumb things all the time, Andy Yen is also not an American, so he might be just ignorant to what republicans actually do. If you check his twitter, he posted some pro-ukraine stuff, and has donated to Ukraine, and also is pro- Hong Kong protesters, anti-censorship in Russia and Iran.
Besides, he may be CEO, but he ain’t a dictator of Proton.
Yeah, gotta find a new VPN also. What an asshole (the CEO).
It was completely shocking, I would expect him to be smart enough not to make statements like that but I guess it’s masks off now that their guy is in power.
We’re probably on a list now, for besmirching him.
I’m not scared. I’m a besmirching machine. He’ll know he’s been besmirched when I lay down some righteous besmirch upon him!
I think you would be laying down smirch, whilst besmirch describes the laying down process.
T. A. Trollope, Marietta
smirch, n.
Nice. In that case I shall smirch him to the end, I shall smirch him on the seas and oceans, I shall smirch him with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, I shall smirch him on the beaches, I shall smirch him on the landing grounds, I shall smirch him in the fields and in the streets, I shall smirch him in the hills; I shall never unsmirch!
I totally smirched him in the parking lot.
Dude got a college degree in particle physics and thinks he so smart 🤓, that he think he also knows about American politics (a country he doesn’t even live in) 🤦♂️
cough Mullvad cough
Do you have any sources for that?
It was discussed in real time across Lemmy with links to Mastodon and Reddit where the CEO and the official Proton account made various partisan statements that have destroyed Protons reputation. I didn’t save links but I’m sure you can dig them up easily enough.
https://archive.ph/quYyb Guess you‘re right, fuck me man.
What’s a good alternative?
I’m not sure yet. I’m waiting until my current sub is closer to renewal before I take any action, not counting the emails to the Proton Foundation expressing my disappointment.
One of the posts discussing it https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429
Omigod.
That line of thinking doesn’t make any sense. I wonder what brand of clothes, electronics, vehicle, foods you’re buying. I’m sure I can find more than one neofascist, companies that fully support the Maga movement, etc… At least Proton is actually working for a better, more private internet, for more open source softwares, and is now operated as a non profit that is audited yearly by a third party. And as other people have said, Proton is not reduced to the political ideas of one board member.
Proton is not the sum total of one of its board members.