Oh no… It’s you. I actually thought you believed the blog post and didn’t know better. Because its assertion about Swiss law is the opposite of yours right now.

You can’t say Proton is legally mandated to violate privacy while pushing a Proton-backed page that says

Even if Andy supported MAGA and wished to cooperate with Trump’s DOJ, such actions would be illegal in Switzerland and blocked by Swiss courts.

Because this is absolutely wrong, and you knew as much.

But even if that nonsense wasn’t in there, the failure to mention the official Proton Team response in the blog post would be enough. Now I know you’re familiar with it, but here it is for anybody else who hasn’t seen it.

https://archive.is/LlbSj

Hard to critique me if you can’t open the links to see what the official accounts say, and your anomymous Proton-backed blog post doesn’t mention it either. Here’s a relevant snippet they disappeared.

Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

- Proton_Team on Reddit, January 2025

Your link is to a 2016 blog post that says, in large font,

It is not Trump’s fault

So forgive me if I don’t think this is exonerating evidence, but rather something that resembles Proton moving from a more modest both-sides stance to attempting a very partisan one.

The “it doesn’t matter” part of the blog post is also dangerously inaccurate, implying any privacy violation in Switzerland is illegal while, in reality, Swiss authorities have gotten Proton to disclose user data several times in high-profile incidents. Here’s the biggest one in my mind. And another and another.

The CEO made an official statement and then the official Proton account doubled down. Praising Donald Trump and JD Vance and insisting, at the time, that the Republican party would be the better party unless Democrats did something about it.

I’m familiar with this link though. It’s the most suspicious, anonymous, intentionally incomplete, poorly written, AstroTurf-looking thing I’ve ever seen before. (How AstroTurfy? Proton officially uses it as a reference. So it gets extra scrutiny.)