Comment on Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Also Andy Yen :
x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
I know it’s quite irrelevant but I’m still very very cautious about proton since this comment. If at the head of the proton foundation you have a Trumpist it doesn’t bod well for the future.
CEO of proton think Trump of all things is what we need to combat the big tech. Trump, elected with a bunch of his big tech billionaires.
My read on this is that he’s an idiot who wanted to air a contrarian opinion ('cause that’s how tech CEOs be), and focused in on a very literal/pedantic view of the issue without taking into account the context (which is that the Trump regime is facist and also just… lies, like, all the time).
Whether or not being a pedantic idiot is better or worse than being a Trumpist (or if it’s even a meaningful difference) is up to you, of course.
egrets@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it’s very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:
He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough.
Implies Republicans stand for the little guys against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.
Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Slater became the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association lobby group. Which was founded by “small business” like Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook.
And involved in trying to infringe upon privacy rights. eff.org/…/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-associa… So yeah, was weird and suspicious he omitted that when trying to use her to praise trump and sell her as some champion against big corporations.
Then that anonymous medium article that floated around defending Andy completely omitting her involvement with the lobby group for big tech, and just focusing on how he isn’t a racist back then seems like it was written by Andy himself haha.
AlexanderTheGreat@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Maybe he just has a crush on her aha.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That would make the most sense haha