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Keep in mind Andy Yen is only one of five board members of the Proton Foundation.
Also, I don't see his tweet as "pro-trump", rather that he is completely ignorant of US politics and he is just spewing his uneducated opinions.
But it is concerning...
My issue was not that Andy Yen made the comment he did (as much as I disagree). My problem was the Proton account making an official statement doubling down on it.
He did make a subsequent post trying to clarify and apologize, but at this point, the cat is out of the bag, IMO. I’m switching to Tuta for email, Mullvad for VPN, and self-hosting Nextcloud for storage.
Rely on a company that is governed by this kind of CEO is not that good
And then the official proton account doubled it soo...