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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Summary
Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.
The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.
Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.
Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.
Then by all means, continue using Proton. But if you can’t understand why people are pissed about what Andy Yen, then there is nothing more to say.
The context and the message are pretty simple and clear and you try to make it nuanced for whatever reason. The guy sucked it up to Trump and people told him to get fucked.
CEO all over the world have been fucking people over for a dollar more and it is not hard to see why Andy Yen’s message was received as it was.
My interpretation is reading the tweet from Andy Yen as it was written. It wasn’t a nuanced position, it wasn’t a long text with many points and the context is pretty straightforward. But you try to make it seems like it was an intricate and nuanced position.
The post on Reddit following the backlash is simple damage control 101 as we see every week when a CEO does a dumb thing.