• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    I am sad because of all the people in this thread who think the CEO is “fascist-sympathetic” because he said Trump did something better than the Democrats one time.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, having only just switched from GMail to Proton last week my heart sank when I saw “Proton are MAGA”.

      Then I spent three minutes reading up on it and it’s like, the CEO said one thing about policy on regulation of big tech that was critical of the Democrats for not doing enough, and the internet has decided that means he’s MAGA.

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      20 hours ago

      Absolutely agreed. I think when you have such role in a company you should avoid making political statements at all, because no matter what you say you will end up upsetting some people. In this case, “try-hard” democrats.

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        11 hours ago

        Well, it’s worth leveraging your status to communicate to the politicians (i.e. this tweet). In this case, it cost him more than I think he was expecting.