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The biggest problem to me is the CEO of a company whose entire focus is on privacy and privacy advocacy being so incredibly ignorant of US politics as it pertains to privacy.
He actually didn't touch privacy, he touched antitrust and monopolies. The whole benefit to privacy is indirect by means of a level field.
He believes that republicans will do better than dems in terms of fighting big tech monopolies.
You're right, he did, but my point stands regardless.
I thought the whole point stood on "company whose main point is privacy". In this case, his views on antitrust may be naive, but it's quite easy to see how what he thinks might happen with antitrust/big tech is indirectly benefiting the privacy of users (worldwide). So doesn't it fit directly with the opinion of a CEO of a company whose main point is privacy? Ultimately proton didn't change product because of this trump decision, didn't change internal policies, terms, privacy policy, nothing.