Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube

Post by eightysixfour » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

chomp wrote: post #15

smithoc wrote: post #14

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Does it matter if it was? It's 2026. LLMs are integrated into text editors the same way as spell checkers and grammar checkers. Even if people write things themselves, they likely are using LLMs to review and edit. This isn't a bot pretending to be a human, this is an official announcement from a company. It's going to be written by a committee and edited by legal and PR and marketing anyway. Who cares if one (or sev…

Yes? Can’t take 10 minutes to speak (or at least redraft) with your own voice? I’ve written PR copy solo, and in committee. It’s not rocket surgery. It’s a group of people standing around with a thesaurus. But if you leave AI-isms in, just feels like you whipped it out while coffee was brewing.

Post by addandsubtract » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

chomp wrote: post #7

eightysixfour wrote: post #3

Response from Proton > You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened. > Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community. > Proton operates globally, and while our services…

> You're right to raise this Is this LLM generated?

Post by O1111OOO » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 2:33 AM UTC

chomp wrote: post #7

eightysixfour wrote: post #3

Response from Proton > You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened. > Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community. > Proton operates globally, and while our services…

> You're right to raise this Is this LLM generated?

Post by bradley13 » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC

orwin wrote: post #20

bradley13 wrote: post #12

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Basically, yes. If you support inequality in front of the law (basically that laws should apply differently depending on your skin n colour or your religion), you are far right. Shouldn't be that hard to understand. In general, most reactionary politics are far-right, although you're right that being reactionnary isn't enough to be categorised as such. But any reactionnary policy that create more hierarchical levels…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC

stgo wrote: post #26

john_strinlai wrote: post #13

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i can totally understand this piece of news being a "stab". but, i dont understand the 404 piece. they are a lawfully operating company, they will answer lawful requests. the same will be true of any and all companies you choose to use for your mail. in this case, only payment data was handed over. if your payment history is of concern, proton accepts cash and bitcoin (if anything, this should be a point in favor of…

It's possible that the 404 stab might be a personal one and comes from too high expectations from me and/or misunderstanding about how private our data was with them. The privacy tech was part of their marketing, I'm quite sure about that. But the fact that they're swiss might also have helped to believe that privacy wouldn't be bargained (vs/ american companies) => I honestly don't remember if it was a claim they ha…