<div dir="ltr"><div>I've been seeing some chatter on Mastodon about Yen's admiration for Trump. It's disconcerting, to say the least.</div><div><br></div><div>Not finding too many articles that aren't paywalled, but here's one: <a href="https://insights.priva.cat/p/does-proton-still-stand-for-anything">https://insights.priva.cat/p/does-proton-still-stand-for-anything</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 at 04:14, Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The only recent criticism that I can find is that Andy Yen, the CEO of P=<br>
roton, is politically a conservative. He prefers the U.S. Republican par=<br>
ty to the Democratic party. He believes that today's Republicans are mor=<br>
e likely than Democrats to take on the abuses of Big Tech. He thinks the=<br>
Democrats are in the pocket of big tech. Yen is a privacy activist who =<br>
is very concerned about surveillance capitalism and the power wielded by=<br>
big tech companies.<br>
<br>
On X, he said =E2=80=9C10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big b=<br>
usiness and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have co=<br>
mpletely turned.=E2=80=9D<br>
<br>
On Reddit, he said =E2=80=9CUntil corporate Dems are thrown out, the rea=<br>
lity is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.=E2=<br>
=80=9D<br>
<br>
Reference: <a href="https://archive.is/wtfPC" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.is/wtfPC</a><br>
<br>
A big idea in today's conservative movement is that society is dominated=<br>
by entrenchedd abusive power structures that exist in government, big t=<br>
ech, and the international order, and that conservative parties are the =<br>
ones most motivated to tackle these abuses.<br>
<br>
I dunno if this is the "bad thing", but I couldn't find anything else.<br>
<br>
Doug.<br>
<br>
On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, at 10:30 PM, Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> CrankyOldBugger wrote on 2025-04-13 09:34:<br>
><br>
>> I have a Proton mail account as well, but given the recent bad bad=20<br>
>> things done by the owner of Proton Company<br>
><br>
> I am out of the loop here, what happened?<br>
><br>
><br>
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