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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)

submitted 3 hours ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 65 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

God bloody dammit. I genuinely LOVE Mullvad and have tried to use their (not so cheap) services. I feel in this economy, privacy comes at a price and I was happy to do this.

Now, I realise my money is going to fund a POS far-right asshole.

Proton supports Trump.

Mullvad suports the far right.

Is there any major privacy respective service provider that isn't a bloody cunt?

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 34 minutes ago

Fuck me, this is gonna ruin mullvad, I hope. Never saw it coming though, wtf?

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

also thought mullvad was legit. also want to know if there's any alternative

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 hours ago

If you build it, they will come

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 8 points 2 hours ago

I've been using IVPN.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

I’ve semi-seriously been thinking about bootstrapping a VPN service just to have one “not an asshole” service (and that’s setting the bar low - I’m definitely an asshole, just not that kind of asshole). But I’m also a US citizen living in the US, so not the best choice for the job either.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

AirVPN?

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Signal was kickstarted by the CIA, so dissidents in regimes they wanted to topple could communicate securely, but at least that seems genuine.

Matrix was an Israeli spy company's invention.

Telegram is Russian.

Reddit started out as the creation of Aaron Schwartz, but he got demonised and committed suicide. Then it was left to that shit eater spez, who sold his soul to the Epstein crowd making Ghislaine Maxwell a powermod among others, also hosting r/the_donald and bridging Trump's popularity from 4chan into the mainstream. Now he sells everyone's data to Google, while still not paying the manufacturers of that data anything.

TrueCrypt got shut down because it was too cool.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Do you have Signal confused with TOR?

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

No lol but I guess they did it twice?

It was in the news a year or few ago that the CIA was ceasing its funding of Signal.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Matrix does have fundamental design issues you would expect from cellebrite devs...

Simplex, Monero and Whonix are all as cool as veracrypt!

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago

and the SimpleX creator is a far righter, too https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114630877715286899