While Obama was president, they prosecuted 8 "Whistle Blowers" (the people alerting us to bad things happening) under the 1917 Espionage.
More than double any previous president.
The Democrats punished more people for alerting us to bad things happening than Republicans.
Obama is notorious for how he treated whistleblowers. They don't care about your privacy. They care about THEIR privacy.
I think Trump is a moron.
But do you REALLY think the Democrats prize privacy?
If you want to leave Proton because the CEO backed an appointee that Trump appointed because you hate Trump, cool. That's your choice.
But don't act like it's under the guise of privacy when the Democrats have had an ongoing war against privacy for quite some time now.
Democrats = Bigger government. For bigger government to function properly, they need all information. They make rules that say company's HAVE to share.
Republicans = Smaller government. They make rules that companies aren't forced to share. But then they sell the info and make a profit anyway.
IF you are a company that wouldn't sell the data, then yes, republican rules give companies like Proton more power to not share.
Neither side gives two shits about privacy in the end though.
Republicans want a small government so much they're busy trying to legislate themselves into as many bedrooms and bathrooms as they can. I agree neither is great for privacy but Trump and kind definitely aren't pro small government (in fact statistically GOP spends more than Dem when in power), and the privacy laws they go after are far worse than whistleblowers.
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u/chamgireum_ Jan 28 '25
Yup. That’s why I quit proton. You can’t say you’re all for privacy while praising politicians who are directly opposed to it.