What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don’t know if they are any good.
What VPN have you switched to after the Mullvad situation. I have looked at nym and ivpn. But don’t know if they are any good.
Mullvad being raided and authorities coming away with nothing is a great proof of concept. But you also act like there’s absolutely no other option, and you make tge incredibly ironic claim that if you use another product, immigration gestapo will be at your door to deport you…the same thing that the Mullvad founder supports. Make it make sense.
The question of whether Mullvad has the best proven privacy infrastructure and the question of whether ethical considerations are category errors in urgent situations are two different claims. You’ve made a strong case for the first one. The second doesn’t follow.
Nobody argued that a dissident with a warrant being served on their door should stop and evaluate the founder’s politics before connecting. The door kicking scenario is a real extreme edge case and in that case use whatever works, obviously. But that’s not why most subscribers are paying for Mullvad and the existence of genuine emergencies doesn’t resolve the question for everyone else making a less urgent choice.
The microfraction of blame framing also misrepresents what I actually said. I didn’t argue Mullvad users bear personal moral responsibility for ethnic cleansing. I said I personally won’t fund it when alternatives exist, and I laid out who specifically gets hurt by the policy being bankrolled. That’s a statement about my own choices given my own assessment of the technical gap versus the moral one. If you assess that gap differently because the raid evidence is uniquely compelling to you, that’s a legitimate position. It’s just not an argument that the ethical consideration itself is absurd.
You just said I made a strong case that mullvad has the best infrastructure then at the end said you wouldn’t fund it when alternatives exist. My whole point is that alternatives don’t exist.
A person who’s using proton is getting something fundamentally different (and in a lot of ways more featureful!) than mullvad.
I really cant even begin to address the moral/ethical angle you’re working from other than to simply call it absurd.
Oi! You got a loicense for that spending money in the marketplace without bearing the burden of others decisions?
Imagine for a second that you don’t like Donald trump. You have two neighbors, one of them is very wealthy and loves trump. Your wealthy neighbor runs the local supermarket and made a huge donation to the local campaign for trump. Your other neighbor is very poor and apolitical, well, you never heard them talk about politics. They don’t have a car and shop at the local supermarket. Trump wins your district and is elected and you find out your poor neighbor didn’t vote.
Who bears responsibility for the election of trump? Would it have been different if your poor neighbor voted?
Your analogy actually proves my point. The wealthy neighbor who runs the supermarket and donated to Trump is Berntsson. The supermarket is Mullvad. The poor neighbor without a car who has no choice but to shop there is the dissident in the war zone you described earlier. I’m the person with a car who can drive somewhere else and is choosing to do so because of where the profits go.
Nobody in that analogy is blaming the poor neighbor for Trump winning. You’re describing exactly the distinction I’ve been making the whole time. The ethical consideration only applies to people who have genuine alternatives available to them. For people who don’t, use what works.
Your technical case for Mullvad’s uniqueness is the strongest argument you’ve made and I’m not going to pretend the raid evidence isn’t meaningful. However, it is only a matter of time given our increasingly surveilled, authoritarian world. If you’re genuinely in a situation where that specific level of proven infrastructure is the difference between safety and exposure, the calculus is different and I’ve said as much.
But most Mullvad subscribers aren’t in that situation. Most are people making a privacy choice with real but not life-critical stakes. For those people the gap between Mullvad’s proven infrastructure and a service like IVPN or Proton is meaningful but not absolute, and the moral consideration can be part of the calculation. You’re arguing that the technical gap is so large it should override everything else for everyone. I’m arguing it’s relevant for some people and not determinative for others. That’s not the same as saying the ethical concern is absurd. What I find absurd is stating that the only option should be the one that funds the selfsame political parties advocating for the REASON the people you describe would need a VPN.
Hey, i make mistakes sometimes. Because of that i went back and re-read your comments to others and me and my replies. It’s not impossible that im wrong here, you know?
Except im not wrong even in the slightest.
You came in with a comparison to a fascist burger shop, which is facile in ways i find hard to articulate but here goes:
A person doesn’t need to eat burgers. Burgers are largely the same in flavor and nutritional content when compared against other foods. Burgers don’t keep you safe. Restaurants have much greater labor margins as compared to internet services.
I’m just gonna stop there because it’s clear you’re comparing apples and plutonium ingots.
As far as i can tell you were never claiming that it’s okay for some people who need it but a valid ethical consideration for others, you were saying that a person continuing to use it is a serious ethical or moral violation.
My position on your behavior is that it actively harms the people you claim to be concerned about (possible future victims of a fascism) because it frames the choice as being between being responsible for the owners actions and choosing safety.
The same arguments get trotted out when someone wants to buy a gun “oh, do you really need that?”, “more money for the murder industrial complex.”, etc.
The difference between what you’re doing and what you claim to be doing is that people who are actively talking about alternatives are sharing their experiences, you’re moralizing through metaphors aggressively at people.
If you really believe what you just wrote then make replies that help people figure out what kind of vpn they need and evaluate their safety instead of pulling out the dictionary.com to define fascism at them.
It’s metaphor bro.
And yes, many do not need burgers. Just like many don’t need VPNs. But some people do need food. Just as you’ve defined they do need VPNs. Some. Not all.
And I did. I mention Proton, I mentiom IVPN, others have mentioned AirVPN, that’s why we’re here. And that user said it couldn’t possibly be fascist. I defined why it is. Plain and simple.
I have never said that someone in a life or death position shouldn’t eat a burger. Nor not use a VPN. You did and you keep trying to force your narrative on me. For those of us that have the ability and privilege, as most of us on this platform do, we can make other choices. If you decide that only a raid by law enforcement can make a VPN worth it, regardless of what the leadership of the team that makes it decides, that is your prerogative.
It’s not mine nor is it harmful to share said opinion. I am not mandating anyone do anything. I’m simply stating my reasons for wishing to no longer support them. I am not mandating someone’s personal choice nor should you or anyone else be able to mandate mine.
And what you keep ignoring is my point that funding these ideologies, directly or indirectly, creates more victims you yourself describe who have no choice. A theoretical extreme, and as I said, use whatever you want, whatever is necessary, eat the burger, use the VPN if you need to. That doesn’t mean it won’t create more victims along the way. So I, personally, will not use it. I, personally, would even rather Proton over Mullvad at this current point. Or IVPN. Or AirVPN.
I’m out. This is pointless as you keep dodging the argument and attempt to force your narrative onto me. You are causing more harm by attempting to have individuals support a founder who supports people’s persecution. Fuck outta here man.
First things first: 👋😘
When i claimed what you are doing is harmful —and i know this is a weird concept but bear with me— i was talking about replies you already made, not replies you would make in the future.
When i just now called back to that part of our conversation it was to explicitly point out that you’re not here trying to help find a solution, you’re here pointing at the dictionary and moralizing at people.
When i broke it down you shifted your tone and started all this “oh, i never said what people should do, only what i would do.” nonsense.
You’re the hot dog costume man irl.
What ethical consideration, the party he did donate to does not even remotely support the claims you are making. And also there is the consideration of what type of democracy we want.
Do we want one where people are free to donate and get involved with whatever party and opinion they want without prosecution?
Or do we want a democracy where you are only allowed to have opinions allowed by the state?
I can’t tell if you’re ignorant or just lying.
https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847
And when did the government get involved in my ability to choose what I purchase? Am I now forced to purchase Mullvad? Its their choice to support whatever they want. It’s my, and others, choice to react accordingly and choose what products we purchase.
Seems like you didn’t check the links in the wikipedia article you sent, that you based your whole “they are def nazi”-monologue.
Giving people the option to move back to their home countries is not extreme, and as I have written before. Already something that is law today.
Here is btw the actual like to the “our politcs”-page: https://www.orebropartiet.se/var-politik/ note how it does not actually have any of the politics there. Yet the wikipedia page seems certain that they have some views, that I cannot see specified anywhere. Even the quote from X is totally out of context.
You can of course do whatever you want, I am just saying that we should be observant to what the party actually wants before we demand the head of a person that gave them money. And clearly you feel comfortable citing sources you haven’t even checked.
Just like Trump has offered immigrants the ability to self-deport and recieve money (which he’s never paid) right? Anyone immigrating has the option to return already, that’s not something they have to be “given.”
The National Socialists also wanted to help those who were different, especially those they said had mental issues. So they built facilities to care for them. Family members were told they would be cared for and helped, provided a better way. This was Aktion T4. They were euthanized.
I’m not saying this is what the Örebro party will do. But I will say, when there are other options available, why risk something like that by indirectly funding their rise? I am allowed to make my own decisions, no? And I am allowed to voice my concern, no? Just like the Örebro party is allowed to beautify remigration and you are allowed to run cover for them.
I feel comfortable because I have. Because someone deletes a twitter post or someone updates a webpage they own shouldn’t sway you.
But first, from the article wikipedia linked
https://www.friatider.se/markus-allard-om-andra-generationens-invandrare-de-ska-ocksa-ut
Just like Germany is for the Germans and America is for the Americans, right?
But yes, they’re just National Socialists, right? They want socialism, it’s in the name, right?
Trump doesn’t offer them to move, he grabs them of the street and throws them out. Regardless if they are citizens or not. Also the nazis were not socialistic.
So your argument is that they COULD BE bad, so therefore the safe option is to not give any money that could possibly end up in their hands? Lol.
The X post is not deleted, you did not check the sources. Don’t pretend like you did.
Yes, there is an actual statement from him. What he is talking about there are migrants that has not worked in all the time they have been here, do not speak the language or has been convicted of a serious crime. I do not find it fascist to throw out foreign nationals that clearly has not respected the laws of their host country.
Me personally, do not want socialism. But yes ÖP is a socialist party.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/21/celebrating-one-year-trump-dhs-now-offering-2600-stipend-cbp-home-app-illegal
Just like your Örebro party wants to “give them the option to leave.”
Also to clarify this is already law to give immigrants the possibility to move. And if Trump has that as a policy? Cool. Better than literally grabbing them of the streets.
https://www.migrationsverket.se/andra-aktorer/kommuner/frivillig-atervandring.html
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/10/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/
You misunderstand, I am part of another party entirely. But I sympathies with having the left smear the party rather than discussing politics, which is harmful in a democracy.
You believe anything someone in power tells you, don’t you?
sigh there’s no point here
Maybe the Swedes should adopt these policies too? Sweden is for Swedes, right?
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/2179363/maga-advocate-calls-for-ban-on-pregnant-women-traveling-to-us-and-sterilization-of-all