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ProtonMail suggests fear of the Donald prompting lockdown
"ProtonMail follows the Swiss policy of neutrality. We do not take any position for or against Trump," the Swiss company's CEO stated on Monday, before revealing that new user sign-ups immediately doubled following Trump's election victory.
ProtonMail has published figures showing that as soon as the election results rolled in, the public began to seek out privacy-focused services such as its own.
CEO Andy Yen said that, in communicating with these new users, the company found people apprehensive about the decisions that President Trump might take and what they would mean considering the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.
"Given Trump's campaign rhetoric against journalists, political enemies, immigrants, and Muslims, there is concern that Trump could use the new tools at his disposal to target certain groups," Yen said. "As the NSA currently operates completely out of the public eye with very little legal oversight, all of this could be done in secret."
ProtonMail was launched back in May 2014 by scientists who had met at CERN and MIT. In response to the Snowden revelations regarding collusion between the NSA and other email providers such as Google, they created a government-resistant, end-to-end encrypted email service.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/14/protonmail_subs_double_after_trump_victory/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:01PM
Hmm yeah only the extremes get to see the truth, who would ever have guessed hemocyanin and I agreeing on something political.
If Bernie hadn't had the nomination stolen, he would have been a much more difficult candidate to beat. Of course add too much "alpha" to Bernie and he's not really Bernie anymore. If he won, I wouldn't be thrilled but I wouldn't be in the streets because at least he's principled and respectable, unlike the crime boss who lost.
All these kids whinging
They haven't red pilled yet, or I guess from your perspective, blue pilled, one way or the other, too normie and the entire legacy culture is uniformly progressive and DNC propaganda machines. All journalists, all public school teachers, all entertainment industry degenerates, all united as democrats in support of their candidate. So everyone in a position of authority and trust (at least if you're a dumb kid) tells you she's gonna win for a year and a half, then reality impacts on election day like a freight train hitting a mosquito, and there's gonna be tears and worse.
Another fascinating aspect of negative campaigning is everyone remembers the anti-trump propaganda that he's going to send black people back to the cotton fields and build a wall at the Mexican border with the skulls of hispanics, give abortion women the death penalty, and burn the jews in ovens. We all saw stuff that bad or almost that bad. Now the campaign is over and no money and no effort is being spent to "correct the record" (LOL hillary) so you got kids freaking out about the media and academia created imaginary "Monster Version of Trump". Monster Trump is going to round up all the gays and send them to band camp without the band but with special showers so lets burn down the city. Real Trump isn't doing that, of course.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:48PM
I'm sometimes amused at how often I upvote my direct ideological opponents, but the fact is, there are interesting perspectives all around. The Democrats' problem was living in a bubble and not engaging, something that is made in a sort of funny, but too serious to be funny, way by this British comedian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 15 2016, @09:07PM
living in a bubble and not engaging
Its a rapidly and increasingly partitioned country.
There was an interesting recent zerohedge post floating the idea of a partition, left coast right coast and center. It won't happen because the GDP of the center was way higher that either coast and the coasts would want to stick together. But yeah that's the kind of idle speculation ideas that float around in bad times.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday November 19 2016, @02:37AM
*laughing* As happens I've upmodded you twice in the last day or two for making some cogent point, despite that politically we're probably on different planets. Cheers!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.