Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"
Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"
Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it's an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!
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Sure. That’s exactly why small businesses thrive in democrat cities, right? And exactly why more small business popped up under Biden, right?
Gimme a break. People are so blind and dumb.
It's just crazy to use "10 years ago" as a break point when the overwhelming majority of these people are in the same jobs.
To borrow a quote from the illustrious President Biden, "Nothing will fundamentally change"
How is this relevant when talking about tech, and when talking about tech monopolies specifically?
They're praising republicans as being the party that helps the little guy. Not just tech.
The context is so clearly big tech and monopolies that I feel silly even pointing it out. It's relevant in the context of the quoted tweet, it's obvious considering what proton is and does, it's consistent with opinions previously expressed by the same guy on antitrust. The little guy here is opposed to "big businesses".
Like no, this conversation is absolutely scoped to big tech/monopolies/antitrust.
Why say "big business" and not "big tech" then if it's just tech?
Because it's so obvious given the rest of the context? I don't know, but unless you want to intentionally misunderstand to critique him on things he quite clearly didn't mean, it makes no sense to assume that:
- a tech ceo
- of a company based in Switzerland
- of a company that is a direct competitor of US tech monopolies
- citing a tweet about antitrust
- who spoke before about the very same topic of antitrust and monopolies in tech
Is talking about big and small business in general in the US economy. Honestly, to me is obvious, maybe the above is not enough for you, in that case I will leave you to your opinion.
Edit: See https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i29k9t/proton_shouldnt_use_their_official_socials_to/m7cqw5j/ where he mentions:
protecting small companies from Big Tech abuse
Yes, in the context and ignoring everything else, sure, I agree. But to me, it makes no sense how someone could believe that republicans are somehow pro big business but anti big tech. Talking about these things as if they're unrelated doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just missing something, I guess.