• cygnus@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    134·
    5 hours ago

    You need to read Andy’s replies after people questioned him on that initial post. I linked to an archived thread in my OP, or you can check the Proton Mail subreddit.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      73·
      4 hours ago

      I read his replies; what about them are “full MAGA”?

      • cygnus@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        74·
        4 hours ago

        I’m assuming you’re arguing in bad faith, or you missed his uniformly glowing praise of Republicans and how they defend “the little guy” as opposed to the corrupt dems.

        • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          3 hours ago

          This is the comment which you linked to, copied and pasted:

          Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot: Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation. Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote. At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance. By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand. Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost. Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

          This doesn’t seem like a glowing commendation to me. It seems he said exactly what he thinks happened, and that only one person showed up. He even brings up the fact that Dems could choose the progressive wing with Bernie, but that they chose to follow the money. That’s not false either.

          I really don’t get how this is full MAGA, unless you’re stating that anything that praises the Republicans is full MAGA.

          • cygnus@lemmy.caOPEnglish
            25·
            2 hours ago

            unless you’re stating that anything that praises the Republicans is full MAGA

            If you’ll read the thread, this is not the first time he has praised Trump.

            • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
              41·
              2 hours ago

              Just so everyone is clear, this is what you’re framing as “praise”:

              It is not Trump’s fault

              It is tempting to blame all this on Trump, but that is taking the easy way out. All Trump does is put a new face on the existing privacy problem, so now it concerns a segment of the population that previously didn’t care as much. Proton Mail users have always come from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. Today, we are seeing an influx of liberal users, but Proton Mail has also long been popular with the political right, who were truly worried about big government spying, and the Obama administration having access to their communications. Now the tables have turned.

              The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time. The left is correct to be terrified of a Trump-led NSA snooping on their communications, especially since Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook can be forced to spy on users on behalf of Trump’s NSA. However, this precedent was not set by Trump – he hasn’t even taken office yet. The first major incident of a US tech giant being complicit in US government spying actually took place in 2015 under the Obama administration(new window).