I am shocked to see so many posts in Reddit and here mentioning Andy’s post.

There are people creating posts with titles like Proton became MAGA, Andy endorsed Republican, and the like…

I am urging everyone, please take a step back and look at the whole story.

I really don’t want people to be manipulated by reading only the titles of those posts and come into conclusion of what Proton is doing.

And please think this, “Proton Mail is the world’s largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.” what does the service has to do with politics?

Thank you

  • Dark ArcAEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The worst part was not Andy’s initial posts it was his initial “let me correct the narrative” follow ups where he went on to bash Democrats and call the Republicans the party of the little guy, which is in many ways untruthful.

    It’s just a really bad look overall. This is basically how it started with us finding out Musk was such a mess too.

      • Dark ArcAEnglish
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        1 day ago

        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.

        I guess it was the initial one where he said the little guy stuff, regardless he doubles down on the partisan politics. This was posted through the official Proton account as well.

        Like, he had a bad expense with Chuck and basically nobody including 99% of Republicans showed up to his party … So clearly we should all just forget all the other problematic stuff that Republicans have done.

        I think he doesn’t get the part about US politics where most of the time party leaders won’t bring bills unless they’re major flag flying things (like immigration in the Republican House) or they’ll actually pass.

        Privacy is neither for either party.