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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday November 15 2016, @05:54PM
OMG take responsibility already! Obama was in the big chair for EIGHT YEARS, he could have simply whipped out his pen and got rid of it at ANY time...he instead expanded it and went farther than Dubya ever did.
I was a Bernie backer but I have always found it disgusting how the left establishment never takes responsibility for their actions. It didn't matter if Obama got 10 terms they would just keep on screaming "Bush!" while ignoring Obama broke every promise and did exactly jack shit to stop the post 9/11 spying.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Wednesday November 16 2016, @02:57AM
The idea that the Democrat party is left wing is hilarious. Economically, Clinton is actually to the right of Trump, though they're close. By definition, right wing is the party of the elites and left wing is the party of the people. Of course at right angles to the economics is the authoritarianism, which both parties are very. Personally being somewhat left leaning and very anti-authoritarian, I can't imagine voting for either and it is so weird seeing supposed libertarians cheering for Trump rather then holding their noses as they vote for what they consider the slightly less evil.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday November 16 2016, @09:10PM
I didn't say they were "left wing" I said they were left establishment there is a difference. What you have with the DNC is a combination of corporatism and SJW oppression olympics and white shaming. If you disagreed with any of their policies? You needed to "check your privilege" because you were an "ist". It didn't matter that their policies were screwing American blacks or that Hillary said they should be "brought to heel" or that her trade deal gifts to the 1% were wiping out the lower middle class, nope you better support her or you are an "ist" and uneducated.
But Trump? Isn't right OR left establishment, which is why so many on the so-called right were quite happy to try to help Hillary win. No what Trump is is a good old fashioned nationalist, something the right hasn't had to deal with since Reagan (whom I would argue would be labeled "alt-right" today) and the left hasn't had to deal with since.....Truman? Until Trump and Sanders both parties were basically Coke VS Pepsi when it came to corporate goals, "free trade", no penalties (and in many cases having the moves paid for by taxpayers) for shipping their businesses overseas and simply importing the finished product, lack of any kind of security on the border, it didn't matter which party you picked they were in total agreement on this points...and then came Trump.
So I would argue the old left/right definitions just don't work anymore, especially in this last election as you had not left VS right but globalist establishment VS nationalism. Most of the elite? They loved Hillary, be they left or right, and why wouldn't they? She certainly had more in common with Paul Ryan or Marco Rubio than she did with Bernie Sanders.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday November 19 2016, @02:46AM
As I said throughout the campaign... Trump was the true third party candidate; he only ran as a Republican because that was the field he thought he could beat.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:20PM
It was the same with Bernie and I would argue it would have been even more of a blow out if Trump would have chosen Bernie to be VP. After all they had many of the same platform goals, an end to TPP and NAFTA, securing the border, more jobs for the lower and middle classes, this is why Bernie was so hated by the left establishment and HRC was so loved by both the left and right establishment, she was the corporatism candidate and he was a nationalist like Trump.
This is why I think this is the start of a sea change in American politics, as both Trump and Sanders realized that a huge section of the population have been screwed for the better part of a half a century by the globalists and if you mobilized them? You could not only win the white house but their loyalty that would help you push your agenda through. If they do not give Trump what he wants? He'll be on Twitter in an hour telling the American people they are getting fucked and by whom and the crowds will mobilize for him, not since the old "Bull Moose" Teddy Roosevelt have you had a president that not only pushed for a "drain the swamp" platform (and Teddy was likewise rich and hated by the establishment) but could also mobilize the public to help push his position.
The next 8 years should be quite interesting, I would say 4 years but as long as he stays on point and keeps as many of his points as he can I have zero doubt he'll get another term, especially if the DNC do as they've been hinting and run Warren. Looking at Warren she is nothing but HRC with less bagge and that shit just isn't gonna cut it anymore, people are being tired of being shamed and told they are an "ist" if they do not support policies that hurt them.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:44PM
No argument there. I don't think Sanders is enough of a realist for Trump, but yeah, as a ticket they'd have been unbeatable by miles. Probably 75% of the popular vote, including much of California.
Trump appears to be shadowbanned on Twitter (I've followed him for some time, but he never shows up in my feed), but even so enough word would get around when he has something to announce to the public, because by now we're on to the SJW censorship tricks. I wouldn't be surprised if instead of press conferences, he does something like weekly Youtube vids. Cut the middleman and make selective quoting unviable.
About all Warren brings to any ticket is "Look! a vagina!!" Er, yeah, I can find that anywhere. Show me, as you say, something more relevant.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday November 19 2016, @02:43AM
"By definition, right wing is the party of the elites and left wing is the party of the people."
By whose definition??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday November 20 2016, @04:03AM
The inventors of the terms, back just before the French Revolution where it was based on where the different parties sat in the legislature. In most of the world it hasn't changed too much but it is simplistic. For example, in a poor country, the corrupt will ride to power by pretending to be for the people, see most left wing revolutions. Both sides also have problems with authoritarianism, which is a whole different issue then economics.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:18PM
I worked in state government for almost three decades* and the feds are even more unwieldy that the state governments. Like Obama himself said, "Trump's going to find out that the federal government is an ocean liner, not a speedboat." There are regulations on the books written a century ago that no longer serve any purpose, but still never get changed.
He's the president of the US, not the president of a corporation. It simply doesn't work like that, as Illinois' Governor Rauner has found out.
*Two of the five governors I worked under went to prison. I retired before Rauner took office.
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