Video description explicitly mentions a partnership (not just affiliate link) + 2min 20s segment embedded in the video.
The person in question: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lapierre
User Lumpy_Carpet9877 shares more info:
Vincent Lapierre’s Wikipedia page is quite explicit about his far-right positioning and includes numerous sources. He worked for several years for a far-right organization founded by Alain Soral, which promotes anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracist, sexist, masculinist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas, and who fled to Russia to escape justice.
He is close to Dieudonné) (a Holocaust denier). He founded Le Média pour tous, a far-right website that particularly targets anti-fascists and defenders of Jewish rights. He has always been close to conspiracist circles
I'll add that if you dare venture on his youtube channel (at the risk of ruining your suggestion algorithm like I did to provide the screenshot), you'll see that most videos are typical far right content / talking points
Update: read Proton's response below
You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.
Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.
Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.
We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.
But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.
If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance."
I'm willing to give Proton a fair amount of the benefit of the doubt (albeit a little less after the Trump-endorsing antitrust tweet by Yen a few years ago), but this is a baffling set of statements.
"The type of people we pay to plug our services doesn't indicate that we endorse their message. I mean, obviously it does, but we don't care enough to manage it closely."
I still don't understand what was wrong with that.
He called a very specific, very pro anti-trust decision (made for all the wrong reasons, but that's besides the point), a good thing.
People started calling him a Nazi.
I just don't get it...
Strange, I remember a lot more than you do.
https://archive.ph/quYyb
Is that supposed to counter my arguments somehow?
Yes. This official statement from the Proton corporate account is worse, and from a higher position of authority than the CEO's personal account.
I find you exhibit a lot of apparent ignorance. I hope that's just coincidence.
Mate, what are you on about?
Proton support cases, not political sides. Yes, in the bit you quoted, they bashed Dems and praised Reps for... supporting their case. How does that go against anything I said about them?
Mate, they were lying about the side. Unless you want to tell me they were either lying or incredibly stupid, your statement is nonsensical.
I'm sorry, you're not making any sense to me. Maybe a language barrier?
What side? Are you saying that they've been secretly supporting right-wing agenda through over a decade of supporting left-right-a-centre projects, as long as they've aligned with their very specific agenda? And, after all that time, they accidentally tripped and got outed by supporting a random dude in France?
They didn't secretly support the right-wing agenda. They explicitly supported it by endorsing the entire Trump admin.
Help me understand if you are ignorant accidentally or maliciously: did you know about Project 2025, or not?
(And yes, feigning further stupidity will be evidence of malice on your part, Alaknar, especially after acting like you're so clever.)
Tough pill to swallow if you’re paying these friends-of-the-GOP for “privacy” - as displayed in this thread
I'm not going to be playing any of this tribalist bullshit. EOT.
So it was malice from the beginning. Disgusting. At least own it.
You talking about yourself?
You're refusing to believe that someone can say something positive about a member of a camp without fully 100% committing themselves into that camp.
Imagine praising Hitler for his amazing art and being surprised by the negative reactions
This was after Trump 1.0 and before the insurrection. So it's more like: "Imagine praising private Hitler in the trenches for his amazing art and then being surprised by negative reactions 30 years later".
Many people have no critical thinking left now. They just swing wildly from outrage to outrage, cancelling things left and right every other week and retreating further into the little safe space bubble they've created for themselves. Algorithmic social media and internet addiction has trained their brains to behave like this normally, so expecting them to slow down and find some nuance in a discussion is unfortunately too much to ask. You can't talk to these people anymore, until they unplug and detox they will remain on outrage culture autopilot 24/7.
Ah, yeah, I'm not saying that. I didn't like that it was a blatant public licking of Trump's boot, and I didn't like his intimation that the GOP is now the bastion of small tech businesses (as if the massive open bribes by tech leaders to Trump weren't happening, and as if the GOP hadn't led the fight against net neutrality).
Stating that a good decision was a good decision equals licking the boot. Got it.
At the time, the Democrats defaulted to oppose everything the GOP was doing, which - at the time - meant standing up in defence of Meta, Musk, TikTok, and similar, because Trump was throwing a hissy fit and - completely accidentally - forcing his people to make a lot of good legislation against massive corporations.
Meaning: at the time the Dems were pro-big business, and the GOP were - for all the wrong reasons and accidentally - pro consumer.
Nobody was saying anything about "small business".
Net neutrality is a completely unrelated issue that the Proton people have stood for countless times.
You've got more energy for this conversation than I have, I'm afraid! My general feeling is that you're understating the platform and the tone of the post, and the political climate in which the statement was made, and that Yen did much the same when he posted it, but I won't pursue this further.
Nah. Yen, and Proton in general, have been extremely consistent throughout the years. Promoting Net Neutrality, privacy, anti-monopoly, and anti-trust efforts.
Sometimes they praise the Left, if they do things that strengthen these things, sometimes they praise the Right. That's all there is to it.
And, again, at the time there was nothing really malicious about supporting Trump. Sure, he was a moron, but he wasn't doing anything outright fascist/totalitarian - the tweet was from December 2024, all of that shit went down starting on January 6th.
Yeah who could have seen the authoritarianism coming in 2024?
Nobody could have possibly known!