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I agree that corporate capture of dems is real, but to paint the magats as being for the little guy is insane!

You have to take the timeline into consideration.

It was all written before Trump 2.0. At that time, and specifically regarding tech, Republicans had much more to offer the “little guy” than Democrats.

Was it completely accidental, just because Trump was throwing a hissy fit? Yes. Did it end as soon as the big tech people started throwing money and praise at him? Also yes. But both of those things happened after the tweets and the comments were posted.

Just read this. It’s a full analysis of not only the CEO’s comments, but also of what Proton does in general. They do not support Republicans.

LOL, another cutie calling me a “maga bot”, I absolutely love this :D

Have you tried reading what I linked earlier? That comment from your link is already mentioned there.

Oh, please, don’t let me stop you from elaborating!

OK, writing “PS” in a thread about Adobe products causes most people to associate the abbreviation with “PhotoShop” more than “Pirate Software”, who’s largely a nobody.

Hahahaha, god I love Lemmy! :D

It’s the only place on Earth where someone could call me a “maga troll” XD

How do you mean? How is starting a bunch of anti-trust and pro-consumer “hardly a point for anti big-tech”?

The facts are these: Republicans, under Trump, started these processes. Democrats mostly opposed them, because they were defaulting to “Trump = bad”.

The apolitical stance of Proton means that they don’t do that defaulting. If Republicans do something good for privacy, anonymity (lol), or consumers, Proton will approve. If Dems do the same - proton will approve. If Greens (or whatever the pseudo “third party” calls itself) does it - Proton will approve.

That’s all there is to it.

But we now live in times where people assume approving of “something XYZ did”, automatically means “approving of XYZ”, which is stupid, reductive, and destructive.

For example, it leads otherwise sensible people to boycott an excellent product, just because its CEO said “the appointment of someone famously anti big-tech to a high anti-trust position in the DOJ is a good thing”.

you having a little trouble with the captcha there or is your government blocking archive sites?

No captcha, just getting a “this website cannot be reached”. Might be because I’m on a VPN, maybe?

As to the contents - I don’t get what’s controversial about any of this.

Other than the obvious tribalism of “he said a good thing about X therefore he is against Y”? He literally stated why he considered Democrats to be anti-consumer (and… well, he’s right, the corporate takeover is a fact), and why he considers Republicans (at the time) to be more pro-consumer (which, again, was a statement of fact, Trump 1.0, due to his hissy fit against social media and big tech started quite a lot of anti-trust cases against them. The entire “block TikTok in the US” thing came from him).

So… Where’s the controversy? What in these posts suggests that he’s MAGA?

The comment was made in a year before Trump 2.0, at which point they weren’t best buds with big tech, quite the opposite, because Trump was at the tail end of throwing a hissy fit against big tech.

First of all, that doesn’t matter to us, from the EU.

Secondly, read this.

Archive.ph doesn’t load for me. Got any alternative links?

EDIT - actually, neither does archive.is… :o

The bad press being: “dude stated a fact, people didn’t read properly and started shitting on Proton”.

Source

Shotcut

Huh… I recently needed to do a super short edit of a clip and people were recommending Kdenlive. Have you used it? To me it felt super complicated (I literally needed something like ClipChamp from Windows), but now I’m wondering if Shortcut might be the better choice.

Did you just wake up from a coma?

They couldn’t give less of a shit about Trump or his radar - they’re based in Switzerland.

He literally only said that someone who is famous for being anti big-tech, and pro consumer is a good pick, because Proton are anti big-tech, and pro consumer.

How this grew to all this nonsense people write these days is a fucking mystery to me…

CEO is maga

Oh, JFC, can we stop with this bullshit already?

“CEO is maga” is the equivalent of going: “Lulzagna wants to force everybody on the planet to only eat lasagna and nothing else, because he tweeted ‘I like lasagna’ once”.

Context:

Trump was still in his “I hate social media because social media won’t force users to praise me” phase. He appointed a person known to be very pro-consumer and very anti big-tech to an important job at the DOJ. Democrat accounts defaulted to “whatever Trump does is bad” and started shitting on the pick. Proton CEO wrote:

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.

Which is all literally just stating facts. The only opinion here is that the pick is good - which, from the standpoint of a company that supports privacy and consumers - makes sense.

Here’s a deeper analysis, including a dive into those antitrust actions started by Trump 1.0, and projects that Proton helps financially.

Did they fully backtrack out of that one?

OOTL - what did they do this time?