The Way Forward

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8. Proton is not without controversy.

Thu Jan 30, 2025, 10:45 AM

Jan 30

CEO kissing orange keister.

Good:
https://proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi
Trump now controls the NSA and FBI – What this means for your privacy

Bad.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

Ugly:
Apology ( on old.reddit)
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_politics_and_proton_a_message_from_andy/

Hi all, last night, a post from last year from my personal X account suddenly became a topic of discussion here on Reddit. I want to share a few thoughts on this to provide clarity to the community on what is Proton's policy on politics going forward.
First, while the X post was not intended to be a political statement, I can understand how it can be interpreted as such, and it therefore should not have been made.

Nevertheless, it's the CEO.

Reply:

Although I appreciate this response, you are still leaving out the important part of what caused all this mess: Protonmail posting on Mastodon/Bluesky and also on here from the OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS, statements labeled as OFFICIAL RESPONSE. I have no problem with you sharing your political opinions on your personal X account or whatever, but you can't just post your political views as official response from the company accounts, and then act like it didn't happen.

Mastodon post:

Original URL does not render here:

Add an h.

ttps://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

If you go there, this is the result.

I trust no company whose CEO kisses Trump's Rump, and that includes Apple and Google and Amazon and so on, and use privacy tools from third parties like Signal and Tor Project that I can trust, for sensitive communications.

The rest, I use with caution if I can't avoid.