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by johnsea 2554 days ago
If you are pretty happy with fastmail, why switch? They will only access your email with a court order (fine with me). If you don't want this, I'd try ProtonMail, they encrypt the email, i.e. are unable to provide email content in clear text. The price is that email handling is (much) more painful.
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> If you are pretty happy with fastmail, why switch?

I do not really care about my personal case, here. But I try to maintain a (some say exaggerated) consistency in "paying with my wallet" according to my principles. Since the Australian government provisions seem an unacceptable betrayal to its citizens, the only way that I can make some pressure in favor of them is by visibly boycotting Australian tech companies. If I were an Australian citizen concerned with the AABill I would certainly appreciate this gesture. My fastmail account is just a 80 EUR/year epsilon amount which will not affect the economy in the least. But it is symbolic gesture in the right direction.

I am still undecided on dropping my fastmail account. But if I do I'll try to make as much noise as possible regarding the reasons.