When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb
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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Can Trump's incoming administration really be said to stand "for the little guys" when it's full of millionaires and billionaires?
Wonder if he'll change his tune when Trump starts going after people using their messages?
CEOs having a "who can suck off Trump best" contest?
You are missing class analysis. Fascism is good for business and wealth accumulation.
This is how it's feeling like, last few weeks. I'll somehow need to justify keeping my proton plan
Yeah I'm in the same boat, I mostly use the VPN I wonder what security it actualy gives now.
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For my fellow German readers: An affordable green alternative to Proton hosted in Berlin is Posteo. https://posteo.de/ 1€ / month to have your mail hosted by a non-shitty company is a small price.
Thank you, I'm looking at alternatives to Proton, because they have just lost a customer.
What Trump really means here is "big tech has run amok they need to kiss my ring first and then they can do whatever the fuck they like". He has identified big tech companies as a key component to cement his future dictatorship and he is not wrong.
Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Not wrong there…
Yeah, that's true. But going on to say 'therefore support Trump' is ... not good.
I think it's unwise for Proton to try to support any political party. Agreeing or disagreeing with decisions and policies is fair and good; but to say "this is the party who supports the little guy" is a bullshit and unnecessarily divisive.
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This is unbelievably disappointing. Just canceled my annual membership (which was set to renew in ~2 weeks).
Looks like I'll be moving to Tuta tomorrow.
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Why are there no reports and outrage over the pick of Gail Slater? Doesn't she fit the standard outrage mold? She does seem to be pretty vehemetly anti-big tech. She has driven monopoly cases against VISA, Google and Apple. Surprisingly sober choice as assistant attorney general.
If this is suppose to be "Full MAGA", then i don't understand where you draw lines.
I don't know enough about her to evaluate her fairly atm, but those don't sound like the worst goals. It's just assumption that she'll be horrible because Trump picked her. I would like to believe it's a blind squirrel finding a nut scenario, but that's going to take time to see.
It seems the guy keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself. Sigh...
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Fuck Proton than.
What's a good alternative I can use?
God damnit. I just swotched to Proton this week
Yeah same for me. I took the blackfriday deal... Now i have a year to find an alternative.
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By the “little guys” he means himself.
By himself he means corporate CEOs.
Well, if he means tech companies that generally get smothered by unfair competition due to tech monopolies, as I believe he does, he is right to refer to them as the little guy.
Also let's not forget that he is the tech CEO of a company which offers great products that don't harm users, that raised tons of money for other nonprofits in the privacy space and that ceded control to a nonprofit to ensure they stay consistent with those values. He is for sure not a regular Joe, but comparing him to a regular corporate CEO is disinformation IMHO.
I migrated my custom domains to Tuta and canceled my Proton subscription as a result of all of this.
And Proton had fucking better give me a prorated refund.
I need to do this. I hope I can get my money back but they can choke on it if not I guess.
Way different stance than 8 years ago.
I checked archive and it wasn’t saved to the wayback machine so I added it in case proton deletes it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250115163936/https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy
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