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Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party (www.flamman.se)

submitted 1 week ago by zaylon@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Av vänstern anklagas vi för att vara fascister och av högern anklagas vi för kommunism

Accused of being fascists from the political left and communist from the political right...not exactly a reassuring description IMO.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 week ago

Calling nonwhite migrants "parasites" is a pretty clear signal which end of the spectrum they're actually on.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So nobody can agree if they're far-left or far-right, but everyone agrees they're far-authoritarian?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 week ago

Seems like it yeah

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, they’re socialists, only national?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 27 points 1 week ago

so like, national socialists. who do we know who also called themselves that?

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Well, the political right calls anyone to the left of Mussolini a communist, so we can safely assume they're wrong here.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

Accused of being Nationalist from the left and being Socialist from the right. What a novel idea. A nEw PoLiTiCaL tHiRd WaY!