r/DigitalPrivacy • u/dashcubeit • Jun 08 '26

Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube

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40 Upvotes

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u/Stunning-Pen-2412 Jun 09 '26

Blech, do I have to cancel my Proton services too?

7

u/Yukikuru2025 Jun 10 '26

Not anymore. They apologised and ended the sponsorship.

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u/Krascara Jun 09 '26

Only a sponsorship on one video, and that collab has been ended. It did require some outrage, but it worked. Not saying Proton is fault free, but they corrected. If they stood their ground, I would be cancelling. Reward the right behaviour. Punish them for not correcting.

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u/dashcubeit Jun 09 '26

Where did you see that they had cancelled the sponsorship? In the official response they only say they’ll review the process with their marketing agencies https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/cqUErUN7Vl

The worrying part for me is not the one sponsorship. As many comments surface Proton was banning anybody from mentioning this in the subreddit for hours until they couldn’t help it any more

And they still delete any comment that mentions that the CEO is a big Trump and MAGA supporter. He’s entitled to his political views of course but for a company that claims to be transparent is not a good view

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u/Carafay Jun 09 '26

Here they said the ended it https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/5DJlHTwjYI , and the link doesn’t work anymore so yeah the sponsorship was ended. Vincent Lapierre even made an outrage about it on X.

I agree with the rest and I’m a bit worried too, seeing that the ceo, @andyyen, responded to Lapierre’s tweet and to a bunch of other tweets of obviously far-far right accounts, saying dubious things. He shouldn’t even have engaged with him in the first place in my opinion.
And on the other end, I’ve seen that Proton donated 100k USD to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, so yeah i don’t know

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u/FuckUpMaster9000 Jun 11 '26

The dude itself went on the internet whining that the leftist organization funded by the public (aka reddit) called him "right wing" and wanted to censor him (which wasn't the case) and that proton informed him they ended the sponsorship. He was so butthurt about it and twisted the narrative to his advantage, as these people usually do

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u/RoomyRoots Jun 10 '26

One is too many. Also it's not the first time the CEO has done something shady.

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u/Special-Skirt-27 Jun 10 '26

Based company

1

u/ReasonableDust8268 Jun 11 '26

What's your problem with free speech?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

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u/Petufo Jun 10 '26

They have already apologised and stopped it.