Considering how many users here have expressed similar disillusionment with the current Democratic party, it seems a bit hypocritical to judge Andy Yen for having the same feelings (or expressing them on occasion).
The only thing Yen should have done to be credible is shut the fuck up and not take any side, or express any political opinion. I expect no less from the CEO of a company that pretends to sell me privacy from a neutral country.
I'm not saying Yen is a raging magat. I'm saying the moment he opened his trap about US politics, he tainted his company and damaged its credibility.
When the parents are irresponsible, most other nations step in and make the responsible choice for their children in their place, whether the dumb parents like it or not.
But in the US, the state is even more irresponsible than the parents.
Yen tried to backpedal meekly several times since then, to get out of the pickle he got himself into with his definitely-not-impressed customers, but it's a bit late for that: either he's pro-Trump or he's naive. Either way, he makes Proton sketchy.
Nah. The skull head only appeared on the uniforms of the SS that ran the concentration camps. We're not quite there yet. But Herr Orange Führer is working on it.
Well, in a not-dictatorship, the prez voluntarily obeys court orders, and gets impeached if he dares not to. In a dictatorship, yes-men congresscritters suck up to the prez to keep their jobs.
You decide whether we live in a not-dictatorship or in a dictatorship.
billionaires who benefit from public infrastructure like roads
Oh, the billionaires don't use up the roads: they fly from their overpriced condos' helipad to their private yachts' helipad to their mansions in the Hamptons and private-jet to their resorts on the Cote d'Azur.
Those people never touch the ground - literally as well as figuratively.
Ah right okay. Well, I'm a developer. All my machines are either development machines or build servers and they all run Linux bare metal. I have no need for hypervisors. My main machine is 13 years old and it has 4 of the same 500G SSD I installed in the old P4, I've been beating the hell out of them 8 hours a day for years and they're still doing fine.
Incentivizing people to get vaccinated is just as important as the shot itself. It's not nothing.
Hell, even I, a staunch supporter of vaccines, who religiously gets the flu shot every year, sometimes forget to ask my doctor if it's available come autumn.
Here is the tweet - if that's not the most flagrant Trump bootlicking, I don't know what is:
https://tildes.net/~society/1ldg/proton_ceo_tweets_support_for_donald_trumps_department_of_justice_pick_and_the_us_republican_party
And here is the backpedal:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_politics_and_proton_a_message_from_andy/
Believe what you will. I believe what I read.