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I am trying to understand this too... I don't care about the CEO's personal opinions, so long as Proton provide the service they promised.
I'd be happy if someone would ELI5 as to why I'm wrong, I'm too lazy to switch otherwise.
A CEO/founder of a communications company praising a fascist is gonna be a major concern of a privacy focused community like this.
Proton should be doing everything they can to keep things private, since that's they're whole marketing strategy. Yet here they are licking the boot. That makes them untrustworthy of our data.
If yhe person running the show shows poor judgment in whose company they keep, where else have they had poor judgement?
How is this poor judgement ? You are arguing in bad-faith
That's naive. I'm not ditching proton yet, personally, but this does shake my confidence in them.