• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    I’m not at the point where this outweighs the reasons I picked mullvad yet. And the other cofounder’s statement does at least give me hope that it might work itself out in a way I can accept before my current term is finished.

    That being said, I’m not sure I can give money to the company when someone is profiting from that money and spending part of it on a political organization that expressly espouses a stance I believe to be harmful and dangerous. And it isn’t like you can pirate a VPN, so it differs significantly from when actors or musicians do stupid shit.

    That being said, I also don’t think that using mullvad would be something other people would be obligated to avoid just because the CEO donated to a small and shitty political party. By itself, it isn’t something so bad that it’s possible to point to a customer and do more than inform them of the donation and maybe give them links to see for themselves that it’s a shitty party. Or, at least that it’s a party with some really shitty platforms.

    But the guy needs to show a major shift in how he donates before I’ll renew.

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      6 hours ago

      He didn’t just donate though, he basically funded it single handed. A quick read about the party suggests that the person in charge is seriously unhinged.

      He needs to be bought out of mullvad.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      Just a rich person trying to get proto fascist powers. Yeah you wait a bit, but I won’t and I hope it’s the end of his company and career.