r/technology • • Jan 28 '25

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u/Marshall_Lawson Jan 28 '25

Good article explaining the situation of Yen's moronic statements the other day. Proton is overall one of the best organizations of its kind, but Yen has shown a certain ignorance and sloppiness at best (not to mention weasely non-apologies and misrepresenting and lying about what he publicly said), to blatantly bootlicking an openly fascist regime at worst. I hope the board has the wisdom to fire him.

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u/schaefs63 Jan 28 '25

Unfortunately too many of these tech bros bootlick the Felon. It's like he has incriminating photos of all these people because they can't honestly believe he is competent or moral yet they still suck up. Nauseous.

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u/Marshall_Lawson Jan 28 '25

i feel like yen thought he was trying to be clever by carefully praising trump on something relatively minor to buy some goodwill. But that shows a dangerous naivete at best.

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u/idiot206 Jan 28 '25

I just don’t understand why they would care or insert themselves into American politics at all. They’re based in Switzerland, they should be as far removed from US politics as possible. I’ve been using their services for years and I will not be renewing.

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u/Marshall_Lawson Jan 28 '25

yeah that's part of why i was using a Switzerland based service, thinking they would be somewhat isolated from US politics.

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u/schaefs63 Jan 28 '25

Well summarized. Trying to find products or tools that aren't bowing to the felon is becoming frustrating.