Due respect, your take is obtuse at best or you’re a shill. The company, with current leadership in place, just cannot come back from the first statement, it illustrates a fundamental detachment from objective reality, to the point that you’ve lost any and all credibility, permanently.

In a business based on trust, this is just so clear. Poop

Then here’s what Proton’s team said on Reddit

are you REALLY asking us to care about their PR damage control? They can literally cherry pick anything and say anything that’s true and try to tie it back into their argument. What stands is his initial heartfelt public statement.

Zero of the statement praises Trump or praises Republicans

Great pick by 
@realDonaldTrump
. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

On Twitter (your know, the fascist communication network)

Tagging Trump directly (ohh look at me, I’m a good boy, give me contracts, invite me over)

your definition of Zero and mine are WILDLY different.

I feel like I’ve read from hundreds of Lemmy users total agreement that the Democratic party

Yes, the standard far right argument, no no they’re both bad so this isn’t bad.

of the sad reality that Republicans with their very hard-on-Silicon-Valley rhetoric are more likely to actually

There it is, you’re not even going to sugar coat it, No no, the Republicans WHO ARE DISMANTLING DEI AND MEDIA FACT CHECKING

are going to

ctually reign in the big tech companies (more )than the Democratic party

GTFO, or at least come up with a half reasonable argument. That’s serious not even worth the time to post on…

TL;DR: storm in a teacup, I’ll be keeping my Proton mail account.

If you’re for real, (and I expect you’re just more damage control), sounds like you’re in a good place with like minded friends not worried at all about their safety.

p.s. yes this is my first Lemmy post.

Ahh so more damage control. Gotcha!

Their PR Department can do better

If by reigning in big tech you mean a cartel style system where companies need to provide funds to Trump to continue existing, sure. But there is no chance that the Republicans will reign in big tech : they are big tech.

You are leaving out the part where Andy Yen said that the tables have turned and the Republicans are now the party of the small people.

Andy Yen’s statement is downright pathetic and misleading. People are right to stir up shit because that’s the only thing corpos understand.

This isn’t a storm in a tea cup, this is the CEO of a company telling us who he really is and people choosing to tell him to get fucked.

Your post reeks of astroturfing.

Good first post

Yep, a complete drama over nothing that got many people start a witch hunt. We already reached the point in which the guy is now a Nazi for having chosen a username with 88 in it, despite the fact that he is Taiwanese AND born in that year. Basically this is the well-meaning, internet vigilantes version of “bill gates injects 5g microchips with vaccines”.

It’s what happens when politics becomes faith.

Nicely said.

I had my doubts, I mailed Proton and they responded with a statement Yen his opinion isn’t that of Proton, his comment while using the Proton account was a mistake which has been deleted and Proton changed to a foundation so no one, including a CEO like Yen, can change what Proton stands for.

Same for me. Was it kind of stupid what the CEO said? Yes, sure, but who the fuck does not do that from time to time?

I also hate this mentality, that if you agree with a decision a party / person made, then that means you agree with everything they stand for. Bitch, no!

Nice try, fed.

Thank you for the summary.

Thank you for clarifying!