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Proton mail sponsors far right French YouTuber, censors criticism on their subreddit (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)

I was afraid Proton would eventually go down the far right route... and it seems like my fears came true

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    their CEO publicly announced support for trump; anyone saying otherwise about proton's proclivities is coping too hard -- especially the ones in this community.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    you can say this about literally every tech company these days.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Which is why we support Open Source like Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, NextCloud, LibreOffice and a whole lot more. :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    With euro office coming up, there was some musing that libre office has Russian roots, does that change the equation any?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    From what I understood: ONLYOFFICE is a fork of Libre Office by a russian company. NextCloud was using ONLYOFFICE for its built-in cloud office suite replacement. Then they forked it with others to have greater control on the software with no communication whatsever to the company developing ONLYOFFICE without respecting their questionnable trademark restriction within ONLYOFFICE licence which I am still unsure if it was compatible with GPL licence Libre Office is using.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's Euro-Office that might have Russians roots. Do get the facts straight. ;-)

    LibreOffice is the only real free and open, open source office suite out there.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Man it took me 3 days of re-reading to only now realize that there is OPENoffice that is forked to libre office, and ONLYoffice, which has strong russian origins.

    Til that only-office is even a thing. Far too easy to misread when I wasn't expecting only as a prefix to office. I'm sure I'm not the only one that got tripped up.

    Also PSA: euro office isn't a standalone offline office suite - it's web based and doesn't run standalone. Needs next cloud and quite a bit of setup to allow for that M$365 'experience'.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't libre also a fork of open?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yes... Because OpenOffice was truly free at the beginning, but then they wanted to make it more and more closed, and then people who didn't share that mission went their separate way. Lucky for those os us, who like things to be as open as possible... And free... And I still pay for it - but I'm free to do that. I had a rough couple of years with low income and many expenses, but even then I could use it for free. That's true freedom to me. I don't want things to be free, like in the sense that I don't want to pay. I do pay, I like to support things that makes sense to me, and with the amount that I can actually afford.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I have not seen evidence of Proton "going the far right route" yet. They are just sponsoring channels that ever mention privacy and far right ones frequently does that too. You can blame proton for no scrutinize, but not of siding with the right or the left. Proton is just focusing in mayor growth and nothing else, for better or for worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Archived BlueSky Post of them: https://archive.ph/2yWGz

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I read this. The guy criticising him seemed like a liberal chud, and the CEO, imo, seems like a centrist chud.

    In fact, he seems like an anti corporation radical centrist.

    Of course this is the dumbest thing for him to say, considering Trumps corruption with Elon Musk, and him having multi billionaire tech CEOs at his inauguration, clearly Trump is not against big tech.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I can't see much of a problem with this, yeah Trump actually did started something useful for all the wrong reasons and the guy praised that, the company sponsoring far right weirdos is waaaay more problematic to be honest.

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