Great pick by @realDonaldTrump
. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
I thought it was disappointing and unnecessary for Andy to say anything at all about this, and especially in support of any of the actions of the Trump admin, but I have personally decided to let it slide. That article is one of the reasons. But I still don’t think it is ideal.
To me, the point is less about him being MAGA and more about him alienating a massive portion of his userbase and then completely botching the PR response by doubling down and failing to apologize or seemingly even understand why what he said matters to people.
Also his either inability to understand that Gail Slater sucks complete ass or his refusal to understand that fact. A leader in privacy should not be praising someone like her and celebrating the departure of Lina Khan. The discussion about whether it’s incompetence or maliciousness is less important to me.
When I emailed their support team about this, they went real fucking weird on the response.
They linked to that medium post too. They linked to a random Reddit post.
They said things like, “He can’t be racist”, which is fucking weird because I was pointing out that I don’t want a company that focuses on privacy to be licking the boot of any government. Which is extra strange they didn’t bring that up at all.
Proton and their whole company is suspicious as fuck. I absolutely believe if their company starts to flounder financially, they’re going to sell access - no question.
Tbh a lot of their decisions makes it seem like they’re just more interested in enterprise customers than anything else, which may be coloring their CEO’s political views as well
Andy Yen, Proton CEO, on X
Interesting read to get some perspective on this.
https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e
I thought it was disappointing and unnecessary for Andy to say anything at all about this, and especially in support of any of the actions of the Trump admin, but I have personally decided to let it slide. That article is one of the reasons. But I still don’t think it is ideal.
To me, the point is less about him being MAGA and more about him alienating a massive portion of his userbase and then completely botching the PR response by doubling down and failing to apologize or seemingly even understand why what he said matters to people.
Also his either inability to understand that Gail Slater sucks complete ass or his refusal to understand that fact. A leader in privacy should not be praising someone like her and celebrating the departure of Lina Khan. The discussion about whether it’s incompetence or maliciousness is less important to me.
When I emailed their support team about this, they went real fucking weird on the response.
They linked to that medium post too. They linked to a random Reddit post.
They said things like, “He can’t be racist”, which is fucking weird because I was pointing out that I don’t want a company that focuses on privacy to be licking the boot of any government. Which is extra strange they didn’t bring that up at all.
Proton and their whole company is suspicious as fuck. I absolutely believe if their company starts to flounder financially, they’re going to sell access - no question.
Tbh a lot of their decisions makes it seem like they’re just more interested in enterprise customers than anything else, which may be coloring their CEO’s political views as well