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[CrankyOldBugger]

I've been seeing some chatter on Mastodon about Yen's admiration for
Trump.  It's disconcerting, to say the least.

Not finding too many articles that aren't paywalled, but here's one:
https://insights.priva.cat/p/does-proton-still-stand-for-anything



On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 at 04:14, Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> The only recent criticism that I can find is that Andy Yen, the CEO of P=
> roton, is politically a conservative. He prefers the U.S. Republican par=
> ty to the Democratic party. He believes that today's Republicans are mor=
> e likely than Democrats to take on the abuses of Big Tech. He thinks the=
>  Democrats are in the pocket of big tech. Yen is a privacy activist who =
> is very concerned about surveillance capitalism and the power wielded by=
>  big tech companies.
>
> On X, he said =E2=80=9C10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big b=
> usiness and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have co=
> mpletely turned.=E2=80=9D
>
> On Reddit, he said =E2=80=9CUntil corporate Dems are thrown out, the rea=
> lity is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.=E2=
> =80=9D
>
> Reference: https://archive.is/wtfPC
>
> A big idea in today's conservative movement is that society is dominated=
>  by entrenchedd abusive power structures that exist in government, big t=
> ech, and the international order, and that conservative parties are the =
> ones most motivated to tackle these abuses.
>
> I dunno if this is the "bad thing", but I couldn't find anything else.
>
> Doug.
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, at 10:30 PM, Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > CrankyOldBugger wrote on 2025-04-13 09:34:
> >
> >> I have a Proton mail account as well, but given the recent bad bad=20
> >> things done by the owner of Proton Company
> >
> > I am out of the loop here, what happened?
> >
> >
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