cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/40877
Email is inherently insecure. If you want or need secure communications, that’s what software like Briar, Matrix, or Signal (yes despite some drama).
Secure emails can always be done manually with PGP and will be a lot hardier than trusting an organization that gives away subscriber payments to Western-backed coup attempts and color revolutions.
The takeaway is it’s upholding of color revolutions and nationalist movements.
Contrary to what many people in the West say, everything has politics to a degree, whether it be explicit or implicit. This thinking is unfortunately very prevalent in tech communities. The cries to keep politics out of things simply does not make sense; ambivalency and apoliticalness is a form of political expression which, in its nature of “not caring,” gives way to the dominant political ideology of the ruling class and it’s state power over society.
In this case, claiming to be for “privacy” and “activists” while citing explicitly money being funneled into pro-capitalist and nationalist movements pushed for by the ruling class, is hypocritical and is the result of what I said above. It shows their true colors and how untrustworthy they are, where their allegiances lie with the ruling class. Their upholding of Western capitalism means they cannot be trusted with actual liberation movements of the masses, of privacy from the insidious arms of the State, and actual freedom for the many.
The takaway is that Protonmail and anyone who pays for their services is an active terrorism enabler in Hong Kong and Belarus. I’m surprised they don’t fund Islamic extremists in Xinjiang too after hearing that.
I’m all for Hong Kong and Belarus being their own state/autonomous, but most companies should not take sides - certainly not so publicly.
be the change you want to see. live right and be happy enough and successful doing so that people want to emulate you, be like you. teach without words. people who preach are generally the biggest hypocrites. stop telling others to do the right thing and just do the right thing yourself.