Could someone fully explain the mullvad controversy. From my knowledge so far it seems like the cofounder donated to an alt right party and it’s probably a bad sign for the company. Anything I’m missing?
Could someone fully explain the mullvad controversy. From my knowledge so far it seems like the cofounder donated to an alt right party and it’s probably a bad sign for the company. Anything I’m missing?
Sooo what’s your point? Did you not just read me say a VPN is easy to change? It’s not like it’s exactly hard to find a good one - just use airvpn
No OC, but personally its the shlog of doing it every day. I moved to mulvad during the proton problem, I moved to proton during the VPN hacks. I moved to VPNs during the ISP leaks. Yeah, changing a VPN is easy but if you compare my life now to 6 months ago the only things that I haven’t had to abandon or replace are aldi, Weird Al, and a love for googie architecture. Every musician, every actor, every food product, every author, every hobby, has been tainted by the new horrible news to the point that I can no longer separate art and artist. I’m burnt out. I know I can’t support these people but I know I can’t keep constantly breaking my routine either. I don’t have time to vet every single VPN for their likelihood of supporting fascism in the next 4 years, I’m still in the middle of sorting all the pedophiles and rapists out of my 8tb of media.
At some point, we’re too beaten down to keep up with the purity of culture and those who aren’t choose to beat us with a stick instead of helping us past the next hurdle. Instead of bemoaning our failure to rise, you’ve got to approach it with understanding and appreciation for the goopy human core and advocate for realistic solutions. Punishing people for their flaws is why Maga is where it is.
I know its easy to change, my point is, no matter who we change to, the same could well be happening. Peoples’ frustration at finding it hard to know what company to trust, is palpable. One company let’s them down, they move to another. That company either doesn’t, or does.
I know nothing about airvpn, but you obviously trust them, and others do too I’m sure, until they are splashed across Lemmy for funding X, Y or Z, and then people move again etc.
Defeatist maybe. Is it too controversial to say that maybe we shouldn’t get so wound up about this stuff? Pick the company with the lesser of the evils?
People are selective about what they get hyped up about. They will change their VPN from Mullvad, but still buy clothes that are made in sweatshops. Its just interesting to see how people react to certain things.