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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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[-] TWeaK@lemmy.today 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Signal was kickstarted by the CIA, so dissidents in regimes they wanted to topple could communicate securely, but at least that seems genuine.

Matrix was an Israeli spy company's invention.

Telegram is Russian.

Reddit started out as the creation of Aaron Schwartz, but he got demonised and committed suicide. Then it was left to that shit eater spez, who sold his soul to the Epstein crowd making Ghislaine Maxwell a powermod among others, also hosting r/the_donald and bridging Trump's popularity from 4chan into the mainstream. Now he sells everyone's data to Google, while still not paying the manufacturers of that data anything.

TrueCrypt got shut down because it was too cool.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago

Do you have Signal confused with TOR?

[-] TWeaK@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago

No lol but I guess they did it twice?

It was in the news a year or few ago that the CIA was ceasing its funding of Signal.

[-] phase@lemmy.8th.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

And Veracrypt?

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

TrueCrypt got shut down because it was too cool.

VeraCrypt exists

[-] TWeaK@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

And we should be thankful that. But merely existing isn't cool.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

How is it now cool that VeraCrypt exists?

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Man, after his death Aaron Swartz has gone from an early employee of Reddit, to a founder of Reddit to now the creator of Reddit. Give it a few years and he'll have provided the VC money for it too.

[-] TWeaK@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

Aaron Swartz is and always was the guy who coded the core functionality of reddit. He was the man who Tim Burners Lee said would lead the charge for the internet into the 21st century.

Instead, the FBI drove him to death.

Spez and that other dude had the idea to make reddit, but Aaron built it for them. Then Randall from XKCD made the "Best" sorting algorithm.

Then Spez shat all over everything for personal gain.

Then you came here to post.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

And he had superpowers too, and was about to bring peace to the middle east.

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