Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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