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I'm not at the point where this outweighs the reasons I picked mullvad yet. And the other cofounder's statement does at least give me hope that it might work itself out in a way I can accept before my current term is finished.
That being said, I'm not sure I can give money to the company when someone is profiting from that money and spending part of it on a political organization that expressly espouses a stance I believe to be harmful and dangerous. And it isn't like you can pirate a VPN, so it differs significantly from when actors or musicians do stupid shit.
That being said, I also don't think that using mullvad would be something other people would be obligated to avoid just because the CEO donated to a small and shitty political party. By itself, it isn't something so bad that it's possible to point to a customer and do more than inform them of the donation and maybe give them links to see for themselves that it's a shitty party. Or, at least that it's a party with some really shitty platforms.
But the guy needs to show a major shift in how he donates before I'll renew.
Just a rich person trying to get proto fascist powers. Yeah you wait a bit, but I won't and I hope it's the end of his company and career.
It's no longer good if the money made from said company are used this way. It was good until last week or so.
Given the poor alternatives, I may fall back on the utilitarian argument. Yes the guy is donating to evil, but it’s a closet full of evil clowns who aren’t accomplishing anything. So my money is briefly passing through evil without much consequence. And back to the lack of good alternatives…
The party is using this money to push their reach hard. It's hard to use social media in Sweden without coming across clips of Markus Allard doing an "epic takedown" of another local politician or ranting with righteous fury against some waste of taxpayer money and the message is resonating with a lot of voters, for a lot of them the Örebro Party just seems like the "common sense" choice. There is a strong possibility that they will make it into parliament at this fall's election and they would not have been able to have this reach without this funding.