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Let’s turn our attention back to “what about Proton’s business model is evil”, where I told you two evil things Proton did that apparently aligned with its business model: Destroying two competitors.

The only apparent defense you have for these two evils is to say a different thing is not apparently evil (vendor lock-in?) but a lack of evil does not absolve evil . I’d rather focus on that than being dragged down into a pedantic debate about which types of Proton emails really do lock users in (as anyone who has ever signed up for a website with an email address will tell you, it does).

Again, you’re coming from the position that Corporation is good until proven bad, a position that I thought everyone was shown, time and time again, is a bad position.

What guarantees Proton will be good?

When Proton bought competitor SimpleLogin, was that good for the average person? How about when they bought competitor Standard Notes?

The people interested in privacy don’t assume something is good until proven otherwise. They assume it is bad until proven good.

Keep in mind the Nitter developers are associated with Poast, despite attempts to scrub this.

Poast is:

a website that has become a haven for racist, antisemitic and misogynist posting also has close ties to Truth Social, the social media site founded by former President Donald Trump, according to a report published Thursday.

I’ve seen at least half a dozen other projects that looked like this, received criticism, and the supposed author responded that way verbatim. It’s actually eerie.