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2 Months old Post that i saw now: Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party (theintercept.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24846782

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The bad thing is that i learned about it after having migrating all my accounts from Google. I am feeling bad now, but there are many accounts and i can not really move again. Who the hell had the idea to connect every website account to an email in the 1st place. Seems a bit ancient mechanic right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

@nuko147 yeah that's right. I am in the lucky possition to own my own domain, so a swap in the "backend" with a provider is fine so far. But I also struggle at the moment to find a new one, luckily I have time until next year, because my contract then runs out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The actual solution to that is using your own domain for email which can then be transferred between providers. But yeah changing everything again is annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@MicrowavedTea @nuko147 All our e-mail, except for some junk with GMail, is on my own domains and has been so for the last 20+ years.
Also again a mail server here at home on the domain pointing to our Internet connection.

Some admin mail is on the domain of our ISP, where I probably should change that to my own domain also on that mailbox with our ISP.
BTW, our ISP is fully trustworthy I'd say, we didn't pick them for the price of the service...