Thinking of starting media creation, want to have an email address dedicated to that purpose. Don’t want to go with Gmail as I’d like to phase Google out of my life, amd Protonmail seems i correct for this because it largely wouldn’t be encrypted mail.
Recommendations?
The CEO of Proton recently came out as a right wing partisan who supports American neofascism. I would look elsewhere for email providers, Proton is not as trustworthy as they purport to be.
I would say he’s a right-wing “Libertarian” not a maga supporter. People like him say dumb things all the time, Andy Yen is also not an American, so he might be just ignorant to what republicans actually do. If you check his twitter, he posted some pro-ukraine stuff, and has donated to Ukraine, and also is pro- Hong Kong protesters, anti-censorship in Russia and Iran.
Besides, he may be CEO, but he ain’t a dictator of Proton.
Do you have any sources for that?
One of the posts discussing it https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429
It was discussed in real time across Lemmy with links to Mastodon and Reddit where the CEO and the official Proton account made various partisan statements that have destroyed Protons reputation. I didn’t save links but I’m sure you can dig them up easily enough.
https://archive.ph/quYyb Guess you‘re right, fuck me man.
Yeah, gotta find a new VPN also. What an asshole (the CEO).
It was completely shocking, I would expect him to be smart enough not to make statements like that but I guess it’s masks off now that their guy is in power.
Proton is not the sum total of one of its board members.