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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.
~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/
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What’s up with every VPN company being facist right wing fucks?!
*every executive
- Buying and selling security appeals to their mindset.
- There’s a lot of money in it, and the ultra rich favor the right.
Yeah I believe it’s the libertarian and hyper-individualist mindset. The founder of Proton is a bit screwy too. I think tech and IT generally attracts people who like simple rule based systems, and who will focus on such thinking instead of messy complex sociological ideas. They are smart but they are stupid in the sense that they lack the intellectual infrastructure to accept that they are not just individuals but the latest iteration of a very messy species.
The other reason is that to get to the top in capitalism, you need a certain mindset of exploiting others. It’s very hard to get rich if you’re even wasting time thinking of how it affects others. So the shits rise to the top.
[Örebro Party leader] Allard has described himself as a Communist, and a Marxist
A self-described communist promoting right-wing ideas? Lemmy is quite familiar with that concept.
How can the national socialist party be right wing? They said they’re socialists!
/s fucking obviously I hope.
"Allard and his party have been described as a nationalist[6], left-wing populist and right-wing populist.[7] He has also been accused of being a communist.[6] Biography
From 2009 to 2013, Allard was chairman of the Young Left’s district organisation in Örebro. He worked for the election campaign of Oumar Mariko in Mali during the 2012 Malian coup d’état.[8][9] "
“In a post from 2012 Allard criticized the state of Israel and wrote that “Cuba is going to be placed under an embargo but the fascist apartheid state of Israel is defended until the last Palestinian child has been incinerated. Liberal politics.”[17] In 2025 he again referenced the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and wrote that he “does not give a shit” about Israel or Palestine and that he thinks it is wrong to kill children regardless of which side perpetuates it.[18]”
“The Örebro Party with Allard as its leader says it wants to cut the salary for politicians and use that money to make dental care free/subsidized by the money taken from the politicians salaries.[25] On the topic of lowering the work hours Allard, in 2026 in the municipal assembly, voted in favor of a proposal by the Left party to enable a 30 hour work week with retained salary for some welfare occupations such as preschool teachers and employees at care facilities as a trial project that would after two years be evaluated.[26]”
Huh what kind of adhd of an ideology is this lmao.
Def sounds like something would come up from up north. Disconnected and thinks they know what’s best for everyone (but themself first before anyone)
I’m sure they’ll find their great place within the eyes of whoever nutjub is going to be put in to the seat after trump.
Fuck this world man. Seriously. Idk what to say or think anymore.
Instead of a concrete ideology, it seems like a handful of unrelated policies strung together. Like he held no opinion on anything until he decided (via ADHD? Unclear) to. But only on very specific things. No broader ideology.
I’m basing that entirely on this comment thread so I don’t really know anything I guess.
Lemmy in shambles lol
A lot of Hungarian far-right parties promoted workplace democracies being the future when they didn’t promote getting rid of democracy.
I’m surprised that Sweden allows individuals to donate that much. Million dollar contributions from a single person should not be legal anywhere.
Anybody know of a VPN service that
- Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections)
- Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol
- Doesn’t have Israeli ownership
- Isn’t owned by fascists
- Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds
So far, the ones with major problems are:
- Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership.
- CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli
I’m unsure about the whether airvpn is owned by fascists but it seems to fit the rest of your criteria and at least on paper is italian
Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.
You know I hear this thing called nord I’m sorry I can’t finish without laughing
NORD VPN! To protect your phone from being hacked because surely that’s what a VPN does! BUY NORD VPN NOW!
What is it about them that’s especially bad?
Bad? Nothing really that I’ve experienced (because I have no experience) I just like joking about the pervasivenesss of their ads. They’re the VPN Shen Yun, so I keep expecting to hear about them being associated with a cult.
IVPN is good. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/#recommended-providers
Idk how this Airvpn suggestions are popping up. Never even heard them before.
I’ve heard of them, but I don’t know much about them.
As for IVPN:
IVPN previously supported port forwarding, but removed the option in June 2023. Missing this feature could negatively impact certain applications, especially peer-to-peer applications like torrent clients
So it’s the same as Mullvad, because they also removed it in 2023.
Njalla is owned by Peter Sunde and almost fits the bill.
Minus the exit nodes around the world.
njalla censors queer voices and holds their DNS hostage for it. njalla is not to be trusted.
i cannot comment further on the specifics here sadly but I will never give njalla a single fucking penny, personally
I can’t find any information on this. Can you provide a source?
please re-read my comment in its entirety.
I do not see a reason you could not discuss this. However, am not asking you to discuss it. I am asking for a source.
If you cannot back up your claims or provide a source which can, I have to disregard your post as slander. I don’t want to do that if you are being honest. I am only asking for intellectual responsibility on your part.
Proton?
Unless I’m mistaken, also problematic
What’s the problem with Gail Slater?
ProtonVPN qualifies in my book under these guidelines, but different people are more or less stringent with what they’ll tolerate on the fourth requirement you specified.
Try proton vpn I guess
When you smell something bad when you’re next to someone, it’s probably them.
When you smell something bad when you’re next to anyone, it’s probably you.
When you smell some bombs all around you, it’s probably Trump and Netanyahu
Completed the rhyme for you 😉
I think AirVPN fits that criteria, no?
I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking.
Thanks guys for posting this and for suggesting alternatives. I’ll look into airvpn I guess. Fuck anyone who wants to make society worse by giving into their worst character traits and base instincts.
Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.
What’s your thoughts and the general opinion of this party? It seems to have been called left and right wing.
I did see reports that Allard allegedly called Somalian immigrants parasites and wants mass remigration.
His views on immigration seem bad, but I’m wary of this being media sensationalism to ruin the reputation of mullvad because they don’t want people using VPNs.
He must have entered that milieu after my time, even though we’re roughly the same age.
What’s up with his style of communication? Feels like he’s writing while drunk. I find it a bit strange that you can get into town hall even with that kind of posture, but I suppose some people find it edgy.
Haha, always drunk fits well these days. I think many voter like having a guy that calls the rest of representatives, liars, cowards and morons to their face.
So Mullvad is over. What’s the next best VPN?
I literally just ran out of time on my subscription too lol.
AirVPN allows port forwarding and supposedly keeps no logs. I don’t remember if they’ve been audited or not
Edit: No audit. So we can’t be sure about the logs claim. They DO have payments over monero though, so that’s nice at least.
Ya, I am also moving to AirVPN.
Maybe we can “pressure” them into doing an Audit. Their linux GUI client sucks, but we can use the CLI client just fine. I just wish they had an AUR official version.
🤦🏻♂️I just renewed mine for a year. Guess that gives me plenty of time to start looking for a replacement
Why can’t we have nice things??!!
When’s the last time you updated the firmware on your duck
Ffs I was planning to switch to Mulvad since my Nord subscription is finally expiring next month, then I find this shit. I’m looking into AirVPN. They sound solid enuff.
Italy is a 14 eyes countries which disqualifies any VPN service thats hosted there.
They look trustable (no email, payment in monero, no tracking) but they’re incorporated in Italy which is one of the stupidest countries in the world for this purpose
Have you ever wondered why usually VPN companies are based in countries like Cyprus, Panama, virgin islands or Labuan?
Yeah that’s a good point haha tax havens for the W I guess. On another note, I think Proton VPN is also a good alternative since they’re based in Swiss, where data protection laws are mega strict.
I am in Italy, AirVPN is Italian, and every page of their site states that you cannot access their services if you’re an Italian resident.
Any idea why?
Not sure if this was rhetorical but here’s an earnest response
Thank you I was genuinely not aware.
That said, and please tell me if I am wrong, it is this VPNs choice to conduct things in such a way that would make them liable to have any kind of problem with the authorities since the norm asks them to report if “the providers become aware” which implies logging and analysis.
I am not sure there is any law asking them to do that, although there may well be.
Could it be that only Italians are protected by Italian privacy laws?
Any Italian who subscribes is doing so against the vpn’s terms. If all data is spied upon then any Italian privacy breaches are not the fault of the vendor.
No, that is not the case as GDPR applies anywhere.
What about IVPN?
What the fuck did I just see?? Mullvad after Proton… So sad… :(
Proton didn’t actually do anything like this, they agreed to an affiliate partnership with a youtuber without knowing the political context of his French-language videos, and then ended the partnership when they got complaints. I don’t think that’s the same.
Proton’s founder has praised Trump’s administration.
I’m happy to be corrected, but I thought they praised a specific decision by the Trump admin to appoint someone they think is the right person for the job (or at least someone who aligned with their interest of net privacy)? I know the current US admin sucks, but if the broken clock is right for a minute, then acknowledging it is ok, right?
No, it was not just that—also the Republican Party as a whole:
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.”
Not only is it flat out wrong but it is also laughably so.
Yes he praised the Republicans generally, and again I think this is due to a language barrier, but that’s suspicious you’re right.
Tim Cook is the one who praised Trump directly, which is even stupider since English is his native language and he was born here. And because he’s allegedly gay.
Holy shit pulling a Tim Cook? Fuck
That’s the second time proton messed up, the first time was unclear position from the CEO about trump and far right
Didn’t the CEO praise Trump or something like that?
*Edit: I found the post talking about it.
Oh cmon! I trusted 'em to not shit in their pants, what next? We discover that Torvalds and Stallman are transphobic?
TIL kernel.org has a Mastodon instance.
My original comment was ironic but having a confirm that his political ideas are not bullshit is nice
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Speaking as someone who does some work for Stallman, although he is right 99% of the time, that last 1% is a doozy
God. Fucking. Dammit.
The title is misleading because it doesn’t mention the millions are in Swedish Krona (I presume).
5 million krona would be €450 800.
1 cent for that cause was already too much!
That’s still the majority of the donation for that entire party. All from a single person.
A Swedish article in a Swedish publication about a Swedish guy and his Swedish company paying in Swedish kroner is misleading?
You forgot to say the part where the title is in English but the currency is not mentioned. Is it pounds? Euros? Nope, Swedish crowns. Since when it’s acceptable to skip the currency no matter what it is?
I still disagree. It’s also why it’s important to not judge things only on a title. It’s still a lot of money in just about any currency that would be reasonably used in this case. At best it’s ambiguous, but I would not call it misleading.
It depends on the audience. From what I see, the most common currencies on of Lemmy users are USD, EUR, GBP, CAD.
Here’s a hypothetical: I once received 5 million from a guy. But it’s only €280 because it was Zimbabwean Dollar.
Isn’t it kroner or is that a different currency?
Thats norwegian
as soon as i started to see billboards and bus adverts i had a feeling mullvad wasnt what i thought it was. sad, i was hoping i was wrong.
So like you get a bunch of money and become evil.
