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It has been a few weeks since we started this, which European email provider have you switched to? (feddit.nl)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I must've missed this, what did he say?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He has on several occasions offered praise to the Trump Republican Party. He quote tweeted a post from Truth Social where Trump announced his nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice:

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

When the response to this tweet was negative, the official Reddit account doubled-down:

Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot:

Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.

Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidentally has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.

Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans are more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

This post was then deleted with Yen claiming it was a "miscommunication" and pledging that Proton would stop offering its political opinions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It'sucks that he's cheering trump but the things he says about democrats are entirely plausible... I mean... would anyone be surprised that politicians are corrupt regardless of the party?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

He doesn't say that, he says Trump's party cares about the little people over big corporations, even when they're the ones putting people on places of power for huge bribes from their big corporations while deporting the little people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Basically said that Trump was a nice guy with good politics, and he cheered him up.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/