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The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

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Re: The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

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I love how we pretend to live in a free democratic society where everyone is free to make up their own mind and vote for what they believe... ...as long as they don't have opinions that differ from ours, in that case we might punch em in the face...

And everyone is free to chose not to buy products from people who have opinions that differs fundamentally from their own?

And some opinions cannot be tolerated in a democratic society. An obvious example is anti-liberal/anti-democratic opinions as they threaten the system itself. You cannot have a free democratic society if a majority removes the freedoms of a minority.

Re: The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

#203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "punch em in the face" Very weird interpretation of "voluntarily choose to not continue supporting them financially" Presumably you want everyone to be forcibly compelled to finance the political parties they disagree with? And you would define this as a democratic society?

Punishing a company because someone does something in their free time with their own money ....

That's how markets work. People have the right to choose to do business, or not, based on whatever criteria they value.

Re: The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

#206

To be fair, Örebropartiet can also be called an extreme left party. It’s complicated… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party

Sounds like the logical evolution of left/right-populism into 'absolutist-populism' ;)

Re: The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

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> The Örebro Party (Swedish: Örebropartiet, ÖP) is a political party in Sweden. The party was initially only a local party in Örebro, Sweden. Markus Allard is the party leader. According to Allard the party cannot be placed anywhere on the traditional left-right spectrum. Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care.[3][4]

I see no problems

Re: The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

#210
I try to turn it other way in my head, like if Mullvad got to know somehow political views of some of their customers and say "We don't like what you say, so we decide to end our business with you. We don't want our infra to be used to spread opinions like yours."
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