Zuck has been into mma for a while and his whole schtick for Facebook was misogyny and consent-free voyeurism, definitely right wing for real
Elon is apartheid baby, def right wing
Bezos is a sociopath who has always been right wing, people just think he wasn’t because he sold books. He sold books at low costs by abusing the early purchasing systems of booksellers -> right wing, as early as the mid 90s.
In other words…no
The nuance was “don’t worry I’m not conservative about everything, I’m just completely delusional about Trump because last time big tech wasn’t playing nice with him so he threw a temper tantrum against big tech, which means he is permanently and forever against big tech regardless of who is going to the inauguration.”
But the thing that really pissed me off in that thread was the dumbasses saying “it’s ok for the leader of proton to be a deranged lunatic, the real way he crossed the line was posting under two accounts.” Fuck. that.
Almost every site is https, so it’s already encrypted. DNS lookups are encrypted. So what a VPN does is prevents your isp from knowing you visited a specific website. There was already no way for them to know what you got from that website, the only additional security was knowing you visited.
If this is a concern, a VPN isn’t useless, but for most that isn’t a concern.
VPNs are also good for torrents and bypassing rate limiting.
Addy.io instead of simplelogin
Bitwarden for pass (see also passky, vaultwarden, and passbolt, plus keepass+syncthing)
Posteo mail/cal
Sync, icedrive, filenio, or any number of competitors for cheap file storage
Posteo
Keep a proton for situations where you can actually use the encryption. Most of the time the encryption is as useless as a VPN.
Also keep in mind all it is is pgp with a directory lookup. I think proton made their pgp directory lookup more open in the last few years, so it may not have any real benefits.
Posteo is great, no issues in 2 years (not forever, I know, but it’s what I got)