His statements on reddit were also edited after the fact after several people in the comments came with receipts and he doubled down.
Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 19 hours agoThis praise is, itself, ass-kissing the orange, likely in the hopes of getting in the good graces of the administration.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
artyom@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Or, possibly because he legitimately thought it was a good choice? Is that not a possibility?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume that Yen is this naive.
As a Proton subscriber not from the US (but who has lived in the US); I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously claim that any of the two major US political parties have any interest in real competition and anti-trust.
One has to remember the Microsoft case from the 90s. I still don’t understand what the “legal excuse” was for not breaking up Microsoft.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
The Proton CEO thought that the party taking bribe after bribe from oil companies to Tech-bros, and which removed the FTC chairwoman that was bringing anti-trust cases against amazon and publicly criticized Google’s monopoly, would somehow install a good, pro-competitive and consumer rights advocate?
If he genuinely believed that, then he’s either wildly out of the loop in one of his company’s largest markets (which I’ll grant as possible, CEOs can be pretty out of touch with reality), or a fool.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Or, possibly because he legitimately thought it was a good choice? Even if misguided. Is that not a possibility?
It still comes down to him being malicious or very stupid and incurious. Either way, it’s a bad look and proton keeps getting own goals, so at a certain point the difference is meaningless in practice.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I see nothing of sorts.
Instead what I see is this perpetuated crap about Proton being untrustworthy (they are not) and the CEO being a trump bootlicker (they are not). So this makes me think there’s a dissuasion campaign going on.
Nothing against what you are writing and pointing to. But look at the grander picture.
They don’t play along. They disrupt the market and modus operandi of stronger entities. Of course there’s going to be incitement against them.
The “That’s it, I’m not going to use them anymore and you shouldn’t either; here’s an alternative” seemed to spawn from a much lesser “charge” than many of the other usual suspects. Like a knee jerk reaction.
Is Proton perfect? No. Are they doing what they claim to do? Yes. Is it good value for money? Debatable. But they are not what people claim them to be on these posts.
Disclaimer: I have a free tier proton account that I log in to once a year, because I’ve moved on to Disroot for my email and mullvad for VPN.