So let me get this straight. One of this companies CEOs donated a huge sum to a bunch of fascists, so now people are switching away from the service. Won’t that only hurt the staff and make people lose a excellent service, as if the CEO is wealthy they’ll be virtually untouched?
so should I stop giving £20 to homeless people on the street here and there because a fair portion of them run immediately into the off-license for alcohol? by your logic I’m essentially funding their drinking habit not just giving a guy on the street money.
have you ever heard of the Orebro party before this or even know any of their policies? just jumping on the tribal bandwagon even though let’s face it a private donation to a local Swedish party barely actually affects any of us on here. A VPN is basically an internet bouncer do you ask the security staff at live shows their political ideology? nope it would be pretty asinine.
i was under the assumption the Fediverse was supposed to be better than Reddit whole lot of the same all or nothing tribal takes.
Pay money to <random-corp> - > <random-worker> gets part of that money, through their paycheck - > <random-worker> funds fascists - > fascists are being funded with “your” money
It came out that he was using his personal money from his pay, and not directly off the expense sheet of the company. To that end, when does it stop being “your” money. If you were replace that with “VP”, “Manager”, or even “random tech” is it still your money at that point?
The amount between worker and CEO is orders of magnitude different. And it doesn’t matter that it’s his private money. It comes (partially) from me. Therefore if I use the service I feel partially responsible. A couple percent of every euro I’ve ever given them, went to funding that party. So I will use a different company, where that doesn’t happen.
But if you’re thinking that he got rich off mullvad then made a bunch of more lucrative investments which formed the income basis for his donation to the totally normal Swedish centrist party and therefore discontinuing mullvad use would be a good choice that’s a pretty flawed route to go down.
It’s a party that split from left party and that I see as quite fascist. The easiest way to describe that to a possibly not quite as informed reader is to use center as a pejorative. It’s also an opportunity to use center as a pejorative which we should always take.
Care to elaborate on where you were going trying to trace the fortunes of the donor though? Was I correct in my assumption that you were laying the groundwork to state that all mullvad payments led to this donation?
So let me get this straight. One of this companies CEOs donated a huge sum to a bunch of fascists, so now people are switching away from the service. Won’t that only hurt the staff and make people lose a excellent service, as if the CEO is wealthy they’ll be virtually untouched?
Pay money to mullvad - > CEO gets part of that money - > CEO funds fascists - > fascists are being funded with your money.
so should I stop giving £20 to homeless people on the street here and there because a fair portion of them run immediately into the off-license for alcohol? by your logic I’m essentially funding their drinking habit not just giving a guy on the street money.
have you ever heard of the Orebro party before this or even know any of their policies? just jumping on the tribal bandwagon even though let’s face it a private donation to a local Swedish party barely actually affects any of us on here. A VPN is basically an internet bouncer do you ask the security staff at live shows their political ideology? nope it would be pretty asinine.
i was under the assumption the Fediverse was supposed to be better than Reddit whole lot of the same all or nothing tribal takes.
Pay money to <random-corp> - > <random-worker> gets part of that money, through their paycheck - > <random-worker> funds fascists - > fascists are being funded with “your” money
It came out that he was using his personal money from his pay, and not directly off the expense sheet of the company. To that end, when does it stop being “your” money. If you were replace that with “VP”, “Manager”, or even “random tech” is it still your money at that point?
The amount between worker and CEO is orders of magnitude different. And it doesn’t matter that it’s his private money. It comes (partially) from me. Therefore if I use the service I feel partially responsible. A couple percent of every euro I’ve ever given them, went to funding that party. So I will use a different company, where that doesn’t happen.
Your point is really valid however as there is no clear lines, so people will have to draw their own.
The core issue is that this guy’s money comes from mullvad customers, and he’s donating that money to a far right political party.
If mullvad didn’t have any customers that political party wouldn’t have any money.
The person who donated is rich from investments in multiple companies. Mullvad not existing would likely not have changed this set of events.
and they gained the liquidity for those investments how?
I couldn’t tell you with any certainty.
But if you’re thinking that he got rich off mullvad then made a bunch of more lucrative investments which formed the income basis for his donation to the totally normal Swedish centrist party and therefore discontinuing mullvad use would be a good choice that’s a pretty flawed route to go down.
why am I not surprised that a ml user would try to “center wash” a party that’s supported by national conservatives (aka white christofascists).
It’s a party that split from left party and that I see as quite fascist. The easiest way to describe that to a possibly not quite as informed reader is to use center as a pejorative. It’s also an opportunity to use center as a pejorative which we should always take.
Care to elaborate on where you were going trying to trace the fortunes of the donor though? Was I correct in my assumption that you were laying the groundwork to state that all mullvad payments led to this donation?
I highly doubt that would be the case.
The first part of your comment clearly appears to be true, but the 2nd can’t be insinuated in my opinion.
Its a tiny party who’s total donations are a fraction more than the amount contributed by mullvad guy.
Its irrelevant anyway. I don’t want my money to support that party.
Founder/probably partial owner. Pretty sure the CEO released a statement that he doesn’t agree with the donation.
Too bad he’s got 50% voting rights.