Proton CEO Andy Yen gave a surprisingly sharp interview to the Swiss magazine “watson” (source in German: https://www.watson.ch/digital/wirtschaft/517198902-proton-schweiz-chef-andy-yen-zum-ausbau-der-staatlichen-ueberwachung). He warned that Proton might leave Switzerland if new surveillance laws are passed, which aligns with the company’s strong pro-privacy stance. So far, nothing unexpected.
However, Yen’s remarks about Swiss officials - describing them as lifelong bureaucrats, all lazy, and incompetent - came across as arrogant and out of place, almost like something you’d expect from a capitalism praising Trump supporter. he also was quoted in the interview, that the US works better (so they consider to move there?).
The interview left me speechless, and I’m certain I won’t be considering Proton for any of my future projects
This is a thinly-veiled attempt at leveraging his past comments to make a normal boring interview seem like a firecracker. Disingenuous as fuck, from title yo body.
The person Andy claimed to support in his past comments is someone named Gail Slater. You should look into her career. She’s very objective and fact-based.
Andy Yen praised JD Vance and Republicans, and attacked Democrats. He was unnecessarily and extremely partisan.
Since you didn’t link to any of Andy Yen’s comments, here is one.
https://archive.ph/quYyb
People are bringing up Gail Slater on behalf of Andy Yen here, pointing out she is objectively a megacorporate shill, though.
And yes, these are Andy’s comments "accidentally* posted on the official corporate Proton account.