• bigDottee@geekroom.tech
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    25 days ago

    I seem to be out of the loop in regards to proton controversy and I haven’t found anything outstanding against them…

    Can you help me understand what you’re specifically referring to? I’m a proton user… so kinda want to know lol

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      25 days ago

      as far as I can tell their CEO is a semi alt right cunt. Apart from that everythin seems pretty okay and the recent shift to nonprofit status is cool

      • Night Monkey@sh.itjust.works
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        24 days ago

        😂 does everything have to be political now? I don’t care if the dude is a space alien who birthed Hitler, if the service is solid, I’m using it.

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          24 days ago

          Everything has always been political. Just because you’re too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn’t mean anything except that you’re usually oblivious.

              • Shadowfax@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                24 days ago

                That is ignoring the fact that the sky and grass are objective realities. “Politics” is all subjective. These are not the same thing, and your comparison is disingenuous and cynical.

                True, you cannot avoid politics if you interact with others, hell, the family itself is the very first political unit. However, politics in the sense of news and elections is not the same, and is entirely avoidable. Your friends and families will tell you the important things anyway… it reminds me of the old blog post about avoiding the news, by Aaron Schwartz, well worth a read http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

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          24 days ago

          It has always been. FOSS is by itself political, just beyond the basic binary logic of left/right.

          Your apoliticism is a political instance as well. Take for instance this quoute from Desmond Tutu “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

          I’m not saying you have to ditch Proton over their CEO’s takes, my point is that thinking that everything suddenly became political is naive.