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/

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[–] 86 points 4 months ago (10 children)

IT company Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive remigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he tells Flamman.

Five million kronor. That's how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown in the party's income statement, which Flamman has reviewed.

Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.

"This is a donation from me personally," he writes in an email to Flamman.

The company has made large profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of 314 million kronor.

The five million from Berntsson constitutes the majority – a full 72 percent – ​​of the Örebro Party's income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. ———————————————

That’s the entirety of the article the toot references. No idea what it means.

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  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    The main part is the party's support for so-called "remigration", which is

    ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry

    About the immigration policy of the party:

    Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

    In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." [45]

    In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish." [46]

    About the foreign policy of the party:

    In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Allard stated his opinion and said that “They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.”

    Lol how is being born somewhere not a natural connection???

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Also how far do you go back? What’s the magic number? Cos at some point pretty much everyone’s is an immigrant to their country.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    You’re falling for their rhetoric by asking that question. We all know that they don’t give an actual shit about the technicalities of their racism. If your skin isn’t as white as the driven snow, you are seen as inferior to these fucks.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago*

    Well, according to the Sweden Democrats, the far right party the government collaborates with and their youtube channel (which they have allegedly cut ties with, but that proved to be a lie a while back) that also gave Allard his own show, had a program worrying about "third generation" immigrants, when talking about who is "great replacement" replacing Swedes.

    Thats right, in a program where they were talking about how every single one with two foreign born parents and half (because "that seems fair", they said in the program) of those with a single foreign born parent are paricipating in a replacement conspiracy, they at the same time worried about the great gap in the statistics that does not keep track on who is third generation immigrants, so the replacement is even greater than that.

    How far? If you've got a you got a grandpa with a sun tan you might be impure to these fucks. But our government thinks they are fine people.

    Edit, oh yeah, the native Sami people and Jews are not Swedish to them either. They have doubled down on this many times.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (19 children)

    Anybody know of a VPN service that

    • Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections)
    • Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol
    • Doesn't have Israeli ownership
    • Isn't owned by fascists
    • Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds

    So far, the ones with major problems are:

    • Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership.
    • CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli
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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Njalla is owned by Peter Sunde and almost fits the bill.

    Minus the exit nodes around the world.

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  • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    njalla censors queer voices and holds their DNS hostage for it. njalla is not to be trusted.

    i cannot comment further on the specifics here sadly but I will never give njalla a single fucking penny, personally

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

    I can't find any information on this. Can you provide a source?

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  • [+] -10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    please re-read my comment in its entirety.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I do not see a reason you could not discuss this. However, am not asking you to discuss it. I am asking for a source.

    If you cannot back up your claims or provide a source which can, I have to disregard your post as slander. I don't want to do that if you are being honest. I am only asking for intellectual responsibility on your part.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You know I hear this thing called nord I'm sorry I can't finish without laughing

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  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago

    Disappointing.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    What's your thoughts and the general opinion of this party? It seems to have been called left and right wing.

    I did see reports that Allard allegedly called Somalian immigrants parasites and wants mass remigration.

    His views on immigration seem bad, but I'm wary of this being media sensationalism to ruin the reputation of mullvad because they don't want people using VPNs.

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

    He must have entered that milieu after my time, even though we're roughly the same age.

    What's up with his style of communication? Feels like he's writing while drunk. I find it a bit strange that you can get into town hall even with that kind of posture, but I suppose some people find it edgy.

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  • [–] 124 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    As a Swede - fuck that guy and the fucking Neo Nazis coming out of the goddamn woodwork everywhere. I was all-in on Mullvad, but that's changing today. Anyone got a good recommendation for a DNS over HTTPS alternative that's not owned by a racist/Nazi/Fascist asshole?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    DNS over HTTPS

    Is there a reason you use DoH over DoQ, DNSCrypt, or ODoH/Anonymous DNS?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Mostly broader support for devices in my network. I know providers can still read my network traffic's SNI but for most common use cases it's better than nothing. And if I really need the anonymity, neither DNScrypt or a VPN will ever beat a layered proxy network like Tor.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Proton VPN?

    Or maybe you can configure your OS to use a DNS over https provider in the settings. I use Quad9

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  • [–] 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    Proton's owner also gives me the ick with his Trump and the Republican Party praising. I'll look into it further and see if there are any other good options.

    [Edit] I learned that CIRA (Canadian domain name registrar) has DNS over HTTPS support so I'll be reverting to them. Canadian shield does sound pretty good for a non-profit service without tracking: https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    See the link by Innerworld below.

    A highlight:

    And while the tweet praises Trump’s pick for leading antitrust at the DOJ, it is exceedingly clear that he did not directly endorse Trump himself or Republicans in general.

    It felt very much like a witch hunt every time Proton was criticised. Almost like other VPNs wanted to tarnish them. But that would be a conspiracy to think I guess.

    Now, I don't know any more, but that one tweet seems to be the only bad thing Proton has done as an organisation, which is a non bad track record IMO.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago*

    That's about outright Trump support, which is not what the comment you replied said he did. They said Trump praising, which is actually kind of what Andy did. I do agree that he is likely just a liberal that didn't fully read the room when posting to social media, however he did praise Trump in that post for that very specific pick.

    Personally, I wouldn't @ Trump and compliment him for anything, especially not if I was a leader of a large company. There is no need nor a reason to make trump's ego any bigger than it actually is, not with everything else he's actively doing to the world. For me, it's less about him "supporting Trump" and more about his inability to read the room and not see why that would be taken as supporting Trump.

    He also did say that the republican party used to be better, which, while true, it's a low bar and it has been shitty republicans for a long, long time. Reagan was a republican, did the tables turn all the way back then?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Proton has similar issues with leadership, unfortunately, just not as bad. For DNS, I use locally hosted unbound which retrieves records directly from the root servers. It's not the same as DoH, though, so if that's a hard requirement then you'd want something like Quad9.

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago

    Oh for fucks sake is nothing sacred

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