Summary
Proton Mail, known for its privacy-first email services, faced backlash after CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party and its antitrust stance.
The company initially posted and deleted a statement supporting Yen’s comments, later claiming an “internal miscommunication” and reiterating its political neutrality.
Critics question Proton’s impartiality, particularly as it cooperates with Swiss authorities on legal data requests.
Privacy advocates warn that political alignments could undermine trust, especially for Proton’s users—journalists and activists wary of government surveillance under administrations like Trump’s.
They literally do this on a schedule every year, this isn’t any different than what they did last year, or the year before that, when there wasn’t any of this conflict.
Or the year before again etc. It’s their 7th edition. Apparently the memory of outraged netizens has a very short time window…