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submitted 4 days ago by zaylon@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

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[-] Godric@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Mentions GNU

Condescending asshole about it

You wouldn't believe it

[-] dropdrip@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes. I am just tired, comrade. Once can argue about the tone, but the reality is there needs to be a rectification on computer-education on a scale that only a government can enact. I can not do it. I can just rebuke.

Juvenile views do need to be rebuked. If you believe you can regain a portion of control back via payment to an entity, whilst still living in ignorance of the substrate you wish to increase control over you are a moron. You are merely paying for a belief.

I can not understand the user's insistence on ignorance. All the users here are aware, to differing degrees, of the abuses that are inflicted on them due to this ignorance, yet there is a crowd who adamantly refuse to use their eyes; they wish merely to do the same things they were doing before, with no change in their own behaviors. They will continue to be abused.

I think the reality is they have no interest in the topic.

[-] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

A VPN has its place in the security stack that should be everyone’s goal. I would genuinely be impressed if you could tell me how a VPN or any other layer in that stack works.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Wao, you apparently know what 'substrate' means. You must be a genius. Such a condescending prick.

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