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It should be obvious that [founder's] private donation to a political party is not part of [his company's] values or mission
Riiiiiiiiiight, because it always shakes out like that
There’s no equally good VPN company, by a wide margin.
This guy’s a rich “libertarian anarchist” who donated to the new party of a marxist he followed because he wants lower taxes and less immigration.
I don’t really even know what to make of that. Unlike the Proton guy who slobbered on the demented rapist’s bunghole, which I knew exactly what to make of it.
I have already quit my subscription. Haven't taken the time to find an alternative yet. I'm stocked up on media for the time being.
Do they offer subscriptions now? I thought they are only pre-paid
I am currently testing out AirVPN. Seems pretty good so far.
So if I use Mullvad, some of that is funding far-right politics?
At this point it’s safer to just assume every purchase you make is funding far right politics.
Not as much as the food you eat or the utilities you use, but yes.
Yes, although frankly it's really fucking hard to name anything that isn't these days. Like, you probably can't even go grocery shopping without some of that money finding us way to alt right politics.
I made the switch to IPVN and it's felt exactly the same. Maybe even better. Same price. Servers in multiple locations. Allows routing through 2 VPN servers. No logs. No money going to racist ideology.
Mullvad can claim whatever they like about their values, but they are a for-profit company. The profits of the company are being used to fund racial segregation. If they believe in their values they'll switch to a non-profit foundation. Until that time they can get fucked!
Is IPVN owned by a non-profit foundation?
Nope they're owned by a single person. I hope he'll be more responsible. If you know of any non-profit vpn providers let me know! Happy to switch again
I had hoped you had any examples since you pointed out that it's a for-profit company :/ Can't do IPVN either than since who knows what the owner uses their money for.
"It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission, in the same way that someone's opinions on animal rights, taxes or public healthcare policy isn't."
I'm not sure what they mean by this. Plenty of corporations do make animal rights, taxes, public healthcare, etc. an important part of their values and mission. Why would it be obvious that they're not?
Besides, we do want Nazis and fascists to be pariahs. Putting pressure on Mullvad not to associate is a good thing.
Specially in Nordics. Social corporate responsibility is a very long tradition in Nordics, specially with due to stuff like co-operative customer, producer or worker owned companies, state enterprises and so on.
Including leadership teams behavior. Companies do get flack for what kind of persons they hire as leadership, since it is (pretty reasonably) assumed their mindset and worldview affects their conduct while leading the company.
Plus not only is he leader, he is owner so again money to company's pocket is in the end money to his pocket.
One can't claim "we are responsible company, while having opposite kind of CEO/leader". It is his private matter he has these opinions, what isn't private is him being company leader. Company doesn't want his private opinions affecting the company, get rid of him as leader.
It would be one thing, if he was "lineworker" employee. Then person can have private opinions don't affect company. However he isn't mere salary employee in the depths of server hall lifting and plugging in servers to racks and cleaning cooling equipment clean. He is company leadership.
