Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45990864
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/proton-ceo-warns-global-age-verification-push-will-mean-the-death-of-anonymity-onlineOpen linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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That is the end goal of this legislation, yes.
Aye shame he supported the people enacting it. Could’ve seen that coming a mile off really.
Surely the leopards would never eat MY face.
Who did he support?
The CEO of Proton threw his weight behind Trump’s Fucking Clown Caucus about them being “better for small businesses”.
Bruh, I need a alternative to proton
Trump+Republicans
https://xcancel.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
Proton CEO can suck my sweaty balls for all I care.
I stopped using Proton as soon as I saw his tweets praising Trump.
The privacy community will lose their shit if this is even hinted at. Fuck Proton forever
Actually the "privacy community" is already pretty on top of this, see:
https://lemmy.world/post/24301835
For me, whether it was officially retracted or not there are plenty of options that don't come with the potential fascist endorsement so I'll just go with one of them instead.
Already? This was years ago, wasn't it?
It was last year, and "already" was a response to the presumption that the privacy community didn't know about it.
What's a good alternative?
There are many good alternatives. Tuta if you want full encryption. Mailbox.org is also nice and it supports the IMAP protocol.
...and Big Tech (there user tracking/profiling becomes much more valuable when there is a real name associated with it).
Freedom of internet is dependent to privacy. Countries' fake concerns about children only pursue to kill privacy, so freedom. But nobody can take out internet. It's not how things work here. At least this is what I hope.
The next step is ISP regulation. Once the ISPs are forced to enforce all of this crap, the free internet will well and truly be dead.
I'd be curious to see how they're gonna sell that. Age verification wouldn't really work there, since you can't buy internet access as a minor.
They didn't even have to sell THIS. They just DID it. Public opinion doesn't matter anymore. Even if it did, this is WAY worse than the anti-Net Neutrality pushes in the past, which eventually won out anyway, and this is getting a FRACTION of the people mobilized against it.
Life was easier on Usenet.
There is still usenet
If you pay. It used to be free from your ISP. And it was one of the busiest places at that time.
So does he not know about Tor or the dark web ?
He does. He also understands that 99% of the world doesn't, so it has no impact on his statement.