Neither does the fact that they gave up the email account of a climate protestor when subpoena’d to do so, but everyone wants to just memory hole that whenever I bring it up on lemmy or scream about how /obviously/ a company that presents itself as secure and privacy respecting has to comply with the law!

Nevermind that there are more secure and privacy respecting alternatives for both VPNs and Email. Shh. Not important.

Oh come on, still beating that dead horse? Isn't it already way dead? Protecting or offering privacy does not mean lawless state. Proton is protecting its users privacy and at the same time, as a swiss company, has to follow swiss laws. The only law that matters is Swiss law.

By the way, about climate protestor, maybe it is time to get the facts straight. It is never mentioned and conviently left out always:

Also, the charges leveraged in the French case were theft and destruction of property, which were well evidenced, substantiated, and quite serious crimes. Their identity was known to police already.

Find me a company that will refuse to comply with a lawful order from the Swiss government and I'll switch today. Until then, you have nothing to complain about.