It is a choice, but being a nazi doesn’t automatically mean that the country you live in is a nazi country, or that the company you co-founded is a nazi company.

Hopefully that information would be much more honest than the post we are all replying to.

I’m not worried about ubuntu, or its offshoots. It is disappointing that a linux distro would go that way, but they were always towards the top of the list of one’s most likely to.

I don’t believe your assessment is accurate, but I’m not worried about that either.

“Mullvad is apparently the main financier of a Swedish far-right party”

you are dodgy

Nothing is obvious for multiple reasons, one of them is that people are deliberately trying to manipulate this to be ‘Mullvad is the nazi party’

The headline of the thread we are commenting on is pure trash.

I requested and received my refund, I hope many others are doing the same with the aim of pressuring his removal from the company

Your partner is “fervently anti-AI”, but you are not.

Is your partner engaging in/reading this thread, and making up their own mind, or are they allowing you to make a decision that doesn’t necessarily reflect, or respect their choices?

Using a different base does not complicate things as much as you might expect, and may also be logical considering you are anti-snap

Guaranteed.

there are political parties here in Australia with names like:|

• refugees are welcome here
• muslim votes matter
• save the environment
• free palestine
• companions and pets party

who solely exist to funnel preferential votes to right wing/racist political parties.

Humans are often trash, by choice.

Using the word “fact” doesn’t make something a fact, do you find people usually fall for that obvious bs?

People are deliberately trying to mislead other people with click bait headlines. Discredit the company by making it look like he is the company. Many people do not read past headlines, many people just follow the crowd, and are eagerly manipulated by it.

If he was the only owner, then yes his company would very more than likely be very much in line with his own morals, or lack of.

But he isn’t the only owner, he isn’t the company.

Decent customers should be getting refunds to apply pressure to the dodgy co-CEO in the hope that he does the right thing and leaves mullvad, or is somehow removed, or so that the (as far as we aware ) decent CEO makes his own vpn company with the morals that we believe(d) mullvad to have.

The irony of clearly dodgy people deliberately trying to make this a ‘mullvad is evil’ thing, is pathetic, but not surprising.

ubuntu going down the ai toilet, and fedora trying to, makes me happy that I chose arch. ubuntu and fedora corporate ties are one of the reasons why I made that decision, and are also why they are making the wrong decisions, and are likely to get worse.

ai could have been good, but take a look around you, humanity cannot be trusted.

From what I have read, there is nothing remotely ‘left’ about them, aside from people labelling them as left.

Duopolies generally have 1 party labelled as left, 1 as right, but they are both always right, and their aim is to keep the government/country right wing. Labelling 1 party as left offers the illusion of choice to zombie voters.

It is a very dodgy industry, that is not restricted to kape, although they are definitely a major part of it.

He may have other income streams, but it would be dishonest to suggest that mullvad customer money did not end up in the pockets of an absurd political party. I do have to wonder how many of the people ramping up about this also boycott the plethora of evil corporations, as well as the evil countries/governments.

You are correct, but what exactly is the company meant to do about this? What can they actually do?

I really would have liked a much stronger statement from the other CEO, but he is also in damage control and is responsible for the survival of the company, and continued employment of its staff.

because one of their ceo’s is right wing trash?

how far would you push that then, there are other things he is a part of, a gender, a race, a country, a species…

Hopefully he leaves, not sure if that is possible/likely though

Right now we are at some people are genuine, some people are in denial, some people are apathetic, some people are clearly very right wing, and some people are deliberately posting clickbait and manipulative rubbish.

enjoy your ai trash.

I found it very easy to switch to linux on my own pc, surprisingly easy. Work will be more complicated, hopefully it goes well. I have no issue with libreoffice, it works well for my needs.

What country do you live in? I hold you personally, and completely responsible for its actions, you know its issues and crimes.

Their response quoted here was too subtle, but you know it is pr for a very serious issue for the company.

“not part of Mullvad’s values” ,perhaps we interpret this differently because we are different people. If something is not part of my values, I am against it, because I am value based, how I interact with society is completely defined by my values.

For all I know you are corn chip based, maybe even a corn chip cooked in palm oil, using child labour, purchased from amazon, and delivered by ubereats.

I meant lemmy, I have only just started using both with the aim of dropping reddit and bluesky, and apparently I am confused.

I agree the post should be removed.