Techprofil ger miljoner till Örebropartiet
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It-bolaget Mullvads grundare donerade fem miljoner – till parti som vill se ”storskalig återvandring”

Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 day ago

    Thanks for the heads up. Switching to Proton because of this. Mullvad has been bad lately anyways with most of their servers getting blocked every where.

    The only thing keeping me on them was their reputation of being a bit less cooky than Proton but this pushed me over the edge

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      have you validated the statements of the article, or do you just outright believe it?

      if not, that’s a weakness with which you can be made to hate all the useful privacy tools.

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          11 hours ago

          this is just one rando saying something on the internet!

          okay, then lets hate everyone, you can trust nobody, because I say everyone is nazi or some other undesirable, there’s no one without ulterior motives, trust me bro. look even linus torvalds is nazi! look he still lives in the USA, and I have insider knowledge about a secret donation he made to trump! no you can’t check it anywhere, just trust me, look my account is 3 years old, super legitimate. instead use my super cleaned out distribution of windows 11, leave your CIA bugged linux behind, and you can sign up to my services because no where else but here you will be safe! pinky promises. if you let the community be divided like that, here you go.

            • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              4 hours ago

              yes. until we have further evidence, we shouldn’t take this at face value.

              or do you have a reason to believe this is not likely a smear campaign?

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        34·
        1 day ago

        Proton CEO praised something Trump did which isn’t a great look but debateable.

        That’s wayyy less bad than donating $500k to a Nazi party which advocates for remigration.

        • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          27·
          1 day ago

          It’s not just praise though, Proton claimed Trump was standing up for the little guys which is rich considering that the fascist is a billionnaire, supporting the wealthiest to repress the labourers even more. And besides that, it’s also insane.

          Hitler was somewhat an environmentalist, but cheering on Hitler for being that is insane, because that is ignoring all the other heinous shit he did.

          • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
            2·
            10 hours ago

            I keep hearing about that praise, yet never once have I seen proof of it. Maybe I’m just using the wrong search engine. Might need to Google this.

            • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              37 minutes ago

              https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

              it came as a surprise last month when Proton CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party in a post on X, declaring that “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.” When the tweet went viral, Proton’s official Reddit account posted a now-deleted comment stating that “Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.”

              In response to a request for comment, Proton reiterated the claim that it is a “politically neutral organization,” then went on to state that “regardless of one’s views about the wider Republication platform, if you agree that action is needed on antitrust then the appointment of Gail Slater is a positive thing,” referring to President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Proton further stated that “Big Tech CEOs are tripping over themselves to kiss the ring precisely because Trump represents an unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.”

          • novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de
            13·
            24 hours ago

            Proton did not claim anything; the CEO of Proton claimed that Republicans (not Trump) would do better on big tech anti-trust.

            This view is not that crazy given that the person Trump appointed was doing her job quite well. Too well to the point that Trump removed her from the position later on.

            • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              9·
              13 hours ago

              Bullshit, Trump is the most big tech and corrupt claimant to Usonian president since a hefty while.

              And Trump IS what the RINOs are nowadays, those that the pro-fascist CEO praised. Republicans are those like Bill Weld and Charlie Baker from Massachusetts.