[southernplaces7]

Half the American tech landscape is either running toward Trumps bed or bending right down and making all the right mating signals in hopes of some interest, but a few pro-republican comments from the Proton CEO should be held as immediately and deeply suspect of this company being a honeypot?

People of all kinds can say certain positive things about the Republican Party for different reasons in specific contexts and not be fanatics you know. That's how using actual reasoning and nuanced discourse works in the world of not throwing your brain in the garbage through ideological rigidity.

[moogly]

For me, at least, it's less about the initial comments than how he handled the fallout from it.

[billy99k]

Why should there be fallout from supporting the current admin? Tech companies colluded with the government during the biden administration to censor American citizens.

I never saw any outrage. Only memory holing and denial

[moogly]

> Why should there be fallout from supporting the current admin?

Well, why or why not doesn't matter; there _was_ backlash. And to my recollection, he made some rather bizarre defensive posts on Reddit that were later deleted and replaced with a corpo response.

[overfeed]

> I never saw any outrage

You probably aren't looking hard enough. There was plenty of outrage, and congressmen excoriated tech companies for "suppressing right-wing voice"

[billy99k]

Not in Liberal/Left leaning communities. They called for more censorship.

[overfeed]

Yours is an entirely different argument to what gp was claiming, and undermines the crux of gps position.

[overfeed]

Ideological rigidity or not, I'll bet dollars to donuts that Proton disabled the accounts at the behest of an American agency. All the highfalutin talk is missing my main point.