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[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just saying: Proton is NOT an EU company and merely Swisswashed. (And Swiss privacy laws suck already and they try hard to make it worse)

(German source: How Proton ratted out climate activists to the Swiss government: https://www.it-markt.ch/cybersecurity/2021-09-07/schweizer-behoerden-zwingen-protonmail-klimaaktivisten-zu-verpetzen)

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's funny because this is also what happens with UK companies. Britwashing. They aren't EU, they have bad privacy laws, they are more of a surveillance state than even the US, and they physically arrest and imprison people for online speech (and then arbitrarily setting rules e.g. arresting people for supporting Palestine). They are also a police state that especially targets threats to corporate interests like how police officers will literally go undercover and have sex with with climate activists to surveil and spy on them https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-56820122

Especially Unilever, for some reason people in this community seem to have a hard-on for it, even though it is not a great company.