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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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It's confirmed. And the party in question is quite extreme, at least by Swedish standards.

According to polls[0] the party gets ~20% votes in their region. IMHO 20% of voters can't be "extreme" [0] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/orebro/orebropartiet-nast-... (swedish)

> IMHO 20% of voters can't be "extreme"

Was the NSDAP "extreme"? They got 43.9%

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

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post #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."

They could do it, some people would align with that stance, and some wouldn't. Exactly how it plays out being a customer: now we've discovered he supports a far-right party here in Sweden, I can choose to not support the CEO with my money and let others know about their political leaning to decide by themselves if they want to support him and his business aware that their money might got to far-right parties.

I don't see any issue with your flipped argument, it's the same thing, no?

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

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does it change your trust in the company? For some people, the answer is obviously yes. For others, they'll judge Mullvad purely by its track record, audits, and technical design. Honestly, you could say the same about the CEO of ANDURIL in the US - the Oculus guy...but he just cares about the US and wants to make money by making weapon systems etc. Is he a bad person? Is he a patriot? Who knows, I ain't gonna play t…

Look at Zuck and Musk. Their platforms are still used by millions. It's only "us" that care about the pedigree of our tech founders, most people couldn't care less.

There has to be some reason that so many projects are started by right wing people. Something in their personality that makes them both RW and willing to start lots of projects.

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

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Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?

Next iteration of this smear article: “Mullvad is basically HitlerVPN”

Someone doesn't want people using the best VPN available, hmm...

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

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post #189

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I don't see how, given their answers to simple questions as described in the "2026 run up to the elections" section, this party could ever be considered a leftist party.

They are very pro education. But that's basically the only thing, all the other answers are enthusiastic right wing answers

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

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Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?

A thought experiment: Let's think of the other extreme as well: exactly the same excellent VPN service, is run by an almost-the-best-person-in-the-world who has just one small quirk that makes them not 100% perfect for you (they pat kittens not as often as you'd like them to do). Obviously there is a border between your extreme and mine, which border defines "use" and "no use" cases for you. And now: wherever this bo…

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