The tweet (can a tweet even qualify as a rant, given the length?):
Great pick by @readDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys [small businesses, n.d.r. as explained on reddit], but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
A rant about how he loves Trump?
How is this even a conversation... Imagine this level of CW on a newspaper. You basically would have 30 CW per article.
I think this is way overcompensating. There is a difference between putting generally disturbing content being a CW and putting anything remotely upsetting behind a CW. The latter is an overcompensation that leads to people avoiding any chance of being uncomfortable.
I think their new (not so new anymore) mobile app has been a major improvement. It is much faster and usable IMHO. This on Android (degoogled).
I am quite happy with the service, and so is my family (non-techie).
Generally you can do it from settings with automatic forwarding feature.
See this article for actual instructions.
Consider that:
For the first point, Proton migration tool (from gmail) works flawlessly and doesn't disclose your new address (plus it moves all your previous emails). I didn't try similar tools for other vendors but I am sure they have similar options.
For me it took months to get the bulk of the services moved over, I added a label to all emails forwarded and I periodically reviewed them. It's a perfect occasion to change password or delete the account.
That tweet doesn't remotely make one a fascist.
Also the control of the company is in the hands of a nonprofit with a very solid board.
Yep, i have mentioned that here coincidentally. But as you probably know the region where this happens has a special status in Italy (it's not the only one) and German is officially equal to Italian there (despite Italian being the ultimately legal language for disputes etc.). French is also an official language of Valle d'Aosta, I think.
As far as I am aware, anywhere else in Italy (where German is indeed not an official language) there are no (public) schools that teach in German. For example, despite almost a million of Romanian-speakers in Italy, nobody has a right of education in Romanian in Italy. This pretty much sums up my point, no state offers public education in a language different from their official language(s).
So, to be clear the "MAGA" stuff is all in the context of that tweet. I put it in quotes because it was not MAGA, but that's another topic.
If he wanted to move out of Switzerland, why is he not doing that? It seems quite clear to me that he provides clear and obvious motivations why he would move away from Switzerland if this or that law passes. If the swiss law doesn't protect privacy anymore, I expect them to move, if anything.
maybe he thinks that setting up educational programs about privacy and security so the Swiss push their politicians towards it are a waste of time
Have you seen to whom they donate the money for their annual charity fundraiser?
Anyway, educating the population is a decennial investment. How does it help when the Parliament discusses a law today?
or any number of alternatives instead of just uprooting and moving
Like what? And most importantly, why? Switzerland is often chosen by privacy companies because it has privacy-friendly laws. If these laws go away or change, why would I care for them to remain in Switzerland?
But given the track record of enshittificiation
Their is no such track record. Enshittifying is a term invented to describe companies degrading the services for their users in pursuit of bigger profits.
"if this happens, we would move to XYZ"
This means having made an enormous amount of due diligence which is realistic only if you actually want to move there.
I no longer trust rich CEOs supporting MAGA when they say "trust us with your data!"
Good call. But proton organizational structure is completely different, and so are their business model and target clientele, compared to other tech companies. I trust business interests more than anything else, because this is why companies do what they do.
P.s. His opinion is rightfully shared by other companies in the privacy space. I legitimately can't find one single wrong thing in his position on this matter.
He keeps saying some sketchy MAGA shit
Keeps saying? Any source or link? Are you aware of anything else besides that tweet?
keeps taking every opportunity he can to advocate for moving out of Switzerland,
He is not advocating to move out. He is clearly saying that he would be forced to IF the law passes because the whole reasons to advocate for being in Switzerland would be no more. Which brings us to the next point...
instead of working to keep Switzerland's laws privacy-focused
How can you not see his statements as a way (The Way for him) to apply pressure on the government, which is exactly what he should be doing to "keep Switzerland's laws privacy-focused"?
How else would you imagine he would "work" to keep laws privacy-focused? He is not in parliament, so bringing media attention and threatening to move a relatively big company seems the best way to me. What would be your idea?
So he complains about laws that would make privacy worse and your take is that he wants to sell data.
Your "suspicion" is based on...?
Interesting, I didn't look at it. Tbh it sounds ridiculous in general to claim a government is Nazi for trying to make the official language survive (especially in the case of Estonian). It also shows how clueless some people are, as if they actually knew what they were talking about they would know that in Estonia for example Russian is very used in Tallinn, local newspapers are printed in both languages, etc. While in Ukraine you actually needed Russian to study in certain universities even (like in Odesa).
Either way, I doubt any argument would work for tankies, that's a cult.
Open that post:
Ukraine is literally using israel as an example and btw the donbass uprising happens because azov started killing russophone ukrainians.
36 upvotes. Tons of Azov members were russophones, and the original battalion (to be cleat, fuck them, they were in most cases actual Nazis) spoke russian as their communication language. Also timelines don't add up, and geographically doesn't make any sense.
Absolutely their rules are bullshit performative stuff.
I know the facts.
And that's why I am calling you out for misrepresenting the facts. There is just no way that tweet can be interpreted as a "rant to say he loves trump".
So, "there has been a controversy about a tweet from the CEO who praises Trump's pick for antitrust and saw it as a confirmation that republicans are more likely to pursue antitrust battles against big tech, compared to democrats" =/= "the CEO went on a rant to say how he loves Trump".