Nothing is obvious for multiple reasons, one of them is that people are deliberately trying to manipulate this to be ‘Mullvad is the nazi party’
The headline of the thread we are commenting on is pure trash.
I requested and received my refund, I hope many others are doing the same with the aim of pressuring his removal from the company
Guaranteed.
there are political parties here in Australia with names like:|
who solely exist to funnel preferential votes to right wing/racist political parties.
Humans are often trash, by choice.
Using the word “fact” doesn’t make something a fact, do you find people usually fall for that obvious bs?
People are deliberately trying to mislead other people with click bait headlines. Discredit the company by making it look like he is the company. Many people do not read past headlines, many people just follow the crowd, and are eagerly manipulated by it.
If he was the only owner, then yes his company would very more than likely be very much in line with his own morals, or lack of.
But he isn’t the only owner, he isn’t the company.
Decent customers should be getting refunds to apply pressure to the dodgy co-CEO in the hope that he does the right thing and leaves mullvad, or is somehow removed, or so that the (as far as we aware ) decent CEO makes his own vpn company with the morals that we believe(d) mullvad to have.
The irony of clearly dodgy people deliberately trying to make this a ‘mullvad is evil’ thing, is pathetic, but not surprising.
From what I have read, there is nothing remotely ‘left’ about them, aside from people labelling them as left.
Duopolies generally have 1 party labelled as left, 1 as right, but they are both always right, and their aim is to keep the government/country right wing. Labelling 1 party as left offers the illusion of choice to zombie voters.
It is a very dodgy industry, that is not restricted to kape, although they are definitely a major part of it.
He may have other income streams, but it would be dishonest to suggest that mullvad customer money did not end up in the pockets of an absurd political party. I do have to wonder how many of the people ramping up about this also boycott the plethora of evil corporations, as well as the evil countries/governments.
You are correct, but what exactly is the company meant to do about this? What can they actually do?
I really would have liked a much stronger statement from the other CEO, but he is also in damage control and is responsible for the survival of the company, and continued employment of its staff.
because one of their ceo’s is right wing trash?
how far would you push that then, there are other things he is a part of, a gender, a race, a country, a species…
Hopefully he leaves, not sure if that is possible/likely though
Right now we are at some people are genuine, some people are in denial, some people are apathetic, some people are clearly very right wing, and some people are deliberately posting clickbait and manipulative rubbish.
I believe the only chance we have of him leaving the company is by customer backlash, it is that simple.
I could very easily pretend this is okay, and that this is just his personal choice, I could pretend that the company money (the money I pay them as a customer) was not used as the primary funding for that political party, that would be dishonest of me though.
For mullvad to continue ethically, he needs to not be a part of it. I have no idea what their options are in that respect, but I hope they can prove themselves to be what I believe them to be.
We have a fascist government that has introduced internet restrictions, and is in bed with the usa, israel, and palantir here in Australia. Vpn servers are scarce in the southern hemisphere, and most of those that do exist, are in Australia, and therefore in multiple respects are close to pointless because of our internet access laws. The majority of vpn companies are dodgy trash. Mullvad is the only vpn that ticks all of the boxes for me, I spent most of yesterday (yet again) assessing options, and I still do not have an alternative. It would be so much easier for me to continue using mullvad.
enjoy your ai trash.
What country do you live in? I hold you personally, and completely responsible for its actions, you know its issues and crimes.
Joined who cares how long ago, that comment is 100% fabricated. Not fascinating. Welcome to the internet.
No, your own words “preclude you from being a decent person”
apathy is evil.
Their response quoted here was too subtle, but you know it is pr for a very serious issue for the company.
“not part of Mullvad’s values” ,perhaps we interpret this differently because we are different people. If something is not part of my values, I am against it, because I am value based, how I interact with society is completely defined by my values.
For all I know you are corn chip based, maybe even a corn chip cooked in palm oil, using child labour, purchased from amazon, and delivered by ubereats.
I meant lemmy, I have only just started using both with the aim of dropping reddit and bluesky, and apparently I am confused.
I agree the post should be removed.
That assumes there is anything they can do about his actions in his personal life.
A clause in his contract that applies significant penalties if he brings the company into disrepute sounds cool, but also problematic, and may not even be a possibility, let alone a reality.
I want him gone, it may not be that simple though.
not just someone, the co-owner, you are choosing to fund the political party.
that is either apathetic, or…
do 2 racists cancel each other out?
“Mullvad is apparently the main financier of a Swedish far-right party”
you are dodgy