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When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's 100% fluff to pretend that until 2016 privacy was only or even mostly something the right was concerned about. His very premise that only now does the left see the problem is ridiculous on its face. (And the more I think about it, it's typical maga thinking - well NOW you libs see what it's like!) And he makes up that ridiculous premise only so he can say "hey guys everyone worries about these things, Trump's not that bad."

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What? Where did he say Trump wasn't bad?

Also, i dont think he mentioned the left anywhere.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry, replied out of my inbox and thought I was in the other thread.

Also, apologies for not knowing how to properly link a post across instances.

https://lemmy.ml/post/24849383?scrollToComments=true

https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy

It is not Trump’s fault

It is tempting to blame all this on Trump, but that is taking the easy way out. All Trump does is put a new face on the existing privacy problem, so now it concerns a segment of the population that previously didn’t care as much. Proton Mail users have always come from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. Today, we are seeing an influx of liberal users, but Proton Mail has also long been popular with the political right, who were truly worried about big government spying, and the Obama administration having access to their communications. Now the tables have turned.

The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time.

The rest of the blog post is whataboutism followed by a sales pitch.