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Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"

Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it's an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!

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[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Does anyone have links to the dumpster fire of a reddit thread in one or the Proton subs? There was also one of r/privacy but I can't find either so suspect they've been deleted to try to quell the flames.

It was very entertaining drama

[–] Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If anyone does have a link send it to me too...it really is being covered up aggressively. Makes me want to drop them more tbh.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Somebody had posted the link elsewhere in this thread. I'd been mistakenly searching u/ProtonSupportTeam for the offending comments rather than u/ProtonTeam

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/comment/m7ahrlm

Here's the r/privacy thread which summarised all the drama, including pointing out all the comments Proton mods were deleting and censoring in their own sub. Then true to form the r/privacy mods deleted the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/

[–] Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank you so much! Very interesting to see their reactions as well. Really interesting to see the damage control since it can say a lot about their stance