• Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    176·
    22 hours ago

    Andy Yen, the founder and CEO of Proton, which developed one of the best VPN and encrypted email services around, suggested that the Signal AW-based outage shows that “an European alternative not run on Big Tech cloud will be necessary to safeguard strategic autonomy.”

    Not supporting the puppet government of said Big Tech could be another good strategic thing to do, don’t you think Andy?

    • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mlEnglish
      61·
      12 hours ago

      He doesn’t. He said that on the issue of privacy the Republicans were more responsive than the Democrats.

      • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        This was his tweet:

        Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

        Dec 4, 2024 · 10:27 PM UTC

        Didn’t age well, if you ask me.