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[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I am pretty sure it's just anti-privacy actors trying to sow discord and generate infighting in privacy communities, and the person your are replying to is either one of them or ate the propaganda.

Any cursory look at the Proton guy reveals he's a progressive who keeps donating to left-wing causes, girls education, pro-LGBT, pro-consumer. To try to paint him as MAGA for being glad about an objectively good thing the Trump admin once surprisingly did is just ridiculous, and obviously not done in good faith.

[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

This was shitty, but my actual problem with Proton is their lean into crypto wallets and showing that they are willing to bend over for the police, which kinda make their entire differentiation as a “secure” platform entirely moot.

[-] pmk@piefed.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

Are they "bending" more than what they are legally required to? Their model is that they cannot provide content if it was end-to-end encrypted, even if they were forced they just can't. If someone pays for their account with a credit card that's information they can be forced to give. I haven't heard that they have gone beyond that and willingly given information. I don't think we can blame a company for not breaking the laws of the country they operate in.

[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Even offering that concession, which I don’t, that doesn’t excuse the crypto wallet.

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