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Have been using proto mail for a few years now and highly recommend it. You will ever have a cute @pm.me address!

• th0ma5 2y ago
  Many people I know are switching away from them because of their alleged support of fascism.
  • Gys 2y ago
    I think they are mixing up who is supporting fascism…
    • th0ma5 2y ago
      Yeah fascists love to say everyone else is fascist so
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  • pcthrowaway 2y ago
    Can you provide any additional context for this? I haven't heard it, and a cursory search doesn't turn up anything obvious regarding their ties to fascism.
    • cinema0747 2y ago
      Their CEO made some comments in support of Trump. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/ https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...
      • milesrout 2y ago
        Ah yes. Everything I don't like is fascism. Ironically, we told you all for years that if you abused terms like fascist, Nazi, racist, etc then they would lose their power and their impact and people would ignore them in future. You were warned what would happen if you cried wolf.
        • anonymous_user9 2y ago
          Sometimes there actually is a wolf, though. MAGA is a right-wing political movement that: -seeks to return the nation to a mythical superior past, by -empowering an extraordinary leader who represents the will of the people, in order to -expel inferior/unworthy ethnicities, and -expunge left/“Marxist” influences from art and culture. These are all characteristics of Fascism specifically, not the authoritarian actions that people casually call fascist.
          • _heimdall 2y ago
            > expel inferior/unworthy ethnicities Is this happening? Or a stated goal? I know they're deporting people who aren't here legally (that's a whole other debate), but I'm not aware of them actively targeting anyone based on race of ethnicity regardless of their legal status.
            • ichicoro 2y ago
              I don't know, is it? The US has had Trump as POTUS for four weeks and he's already doing a lot of what was "promised" in [Project 2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025)...
            • blactuary 2y ago
              Yes, they are currently targeting Venezuelans and Haitians who have legal status
              • _heimdall 2y ago
                I know trump was already saying shitty things about Haitians before he was even sworn in. Have they had ICE rounding up and deporting people who are actually here legally?
                • blactuary 2y ago
                  They are working on cancelling their legal status. We have allowed Haitian migration because of the incompetence and corruption down there (and our role in a lot of that in the past)
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  • ttyprintk 2y ago
    What I’ve heard is that hosting in Switzerland concerns right-leaning people.
  • johnisgood 2y ago
    In what way do they support fascism? I am using Protonmail, does it mean I indirectly support fascism? I do not care about the CEOs political views, nor his views on polygamy, or his favorite sexual position. If you want to argue against the use of Protonmail, you will have to try harder.