Its ok they’ll just keep doing it illegally and no one will do anything about it.
“It’s okay everyone. The supreme court of corrupt pedophiles decreed that corrupt pedophiles are really cool now”
Congress will probably just renew the law… not like it matters whether they do or not as far as spying continuation, but dems and magats both seem to love that s**t
Does it mean Proton will keep sponsoring extreme right wing youtubers?
Seriously. Help me understand something.
Why?
Why engage in such lazy thinking? Why accept the vibes over facts, like a MAGA moron?You could sign up for an affiliate link your self today. Then plaster that link and official Proton marketing graphics all over an environmental extremist site advocating forced sterilization to save the Earth.
Proton didn’t “sponsor” that YouTuber any more than YouTube itself did. Why get pissy at one of the few companies offering a pro-consumer alternative to much of the capitalist enshitizine? Why make up shit about a B-Corp, owned by a nonprofit foundation, with a board made entirely of scientists and engineers?
Did you report the channel to YouTube also? Why not? What’s worse, using his channel to promote Proton, or using it to promote bigotry? Who’s the real bad guy here?
Tell me please! Why attack Proton instead of one of the truly proven bad actors in this space?
Funny to call me a “MAGA moron” when MAGA loves Proton, who, in the past year or so, have said “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned,” in response to Trump’s second presidency, allowed an obvious OpSec hole to exist in their business model that allowed them to hand Kash Patel info on anti-ICE protesters without any kind of warning, and are now sponsoring self-described Nazis on YouTube.
Proton didn’t “sponsor” that YouTuber any more than YouTube itself did.
Literally contradicted by Proton’s own words:
We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn’t… In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership. (emphasis added)
I’m pissy over this because I do not like fascists and I don’t like the fact that some % of my yearly subscription $ have gone to one.
Have you even seen Proton’s comments on the controversy? They’re not even remotely sorry, just sorry they got caught.
Please excuse my shitty screenshot:
This is without a doubt the worst possible response to people upset that you sponsored a Nazi. This is the bar saying “why can’t we all get along?” in the Nazi Bar analogy.. It’s despicable.
ETA: I know we all hate Reddit here but this thread is a pretty good read if you are actually unsure why someone could be upset by this. Includes Proton’s responses.
Funny to call me a “MAGA moron”
That’s not what I did. Read it again.
I asked several why questions. None were “why could someone be upset by this”.
I didn’t call you and idiot, I said you’re like and idiot!"
Okay yeah my bad.
I thought most of your questions were rhetorical because they were so obvious TBH.
Why? Why engage in such lazy >thinking? Why accept the vibes over facts, like a MAGA moron? (emphasis added)
Proton sponsored a far right self-described Nazi YouTuber. This is the fact and is basically the entirety of my original comment. Your questions are just foundationally wrong.
Your bit about “You could sign up for an affiliate link your self today…” is wrong as well and contradicted by Proton’s own words about using their brand.
Why make up shit about a B-Corp, owned by a nonprofit foundation, with a board made entirely of scientists and engineers?
Not made up and appeal to authority. Majority owned, BTW. “Scientists and engineers” are not paragons of ethics, either.
Did you report the channel to YouTube also? Why not? What’s worse, using his channel to promote Proton, or using it to promote bigotry? Who’s the real bad guy here?
No. I don’t watch YouTube, don’t want to give them a view, etc., etc. If you actually believe he was promoting bigotry then you should be upset that Proton sponsored him. The only excuse for not being upset is if you don’t believe Proton sponsored him, which is objectively wrong; they did. False equivalency. Both can be bad. One can be worse. Does not mean the bad doesn’t deserve to be addressed.
Why attack Proton instead of one of the truly proven bad actors in this space? (sic)
No question mark but framed as one. See above. I believe Proton is one of the bad actors here. The CEO’s wishy-washy AI responses to community backlash show no remorse. I spend no small amount of money on a service that can be found comparable for free elsewhere because I believe in their stated ethics, to see them act so counter to them and use my money to do so is upsetting to me.
Thank you
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If you read their full response you’d see they have a sign up program and didn’t do proper vetting. They didn’t seek him out to promote and agenda
