Privacy

Should a company owner's politics affect reception of their product?

Customers choice. Within limits, product is more important than the owners politics.

Remember, a good way to destroy a superior product (that you don't control) is to denigrate something not relevant so that users will change to a compromised product.

GB promoted Enigma in 3rd world countries after WW2 since it's compromise was only commonly known in the 70s.

While the NSA is believed to have improved the security of DES, they are believed to have compromised Clipper.

Microsoft was just caught putting in a back door into their disk encryption.

The USA spreads FUD over Chinese routers, CPU when it is already known to be selling compromised Intel&AMD CPUs and compromised Cisco routers. The more important question is whether leaking your data to the USA or to the PRC has greater personal risk.