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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/mullvad@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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(Interesting that it didn't show up here beforehand...)

The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Might be a dumb idea, but could a VPN be crowd-sourced? What if multiple people managed different instances, almost like a virtual coöp?

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

That's more or less what Tor is. Technically it's feasible, the issue is the amount and kind of trust between users and contributors that it requires.

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[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

The issue with Tor is that it's rather slow, since it passes through several nodes before it arrives at its destination (or leaves the network).

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