Bad form!

This is an incredibly important issue. This event comes on the heels of Andy Yen throwing a friendly comment toward the Trump admin regarding one of their admin selections. The latter half of which falsely credited the 1st Trump admin with intiating much of the recent anti-monopolistic endeavors.

Much of the recent anti-trust actions have been a result of Executive Order 14036, a Biden era EO from 2021 authored by Lisa Khan. Trump has in fact repealed this EO as of August 2025 with EO Executive Order 14337.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14036

So not only praising the Trump admin, but also spreading misinfo on their behalf and then retreating behind a statement of political neutrality when called out for it.

Much of the fear with this event is this seems to be in line an emerging trend of Tech CEO's dipping thier toes into Facist support.

It is fine to be politically neutral in a system where both parties support the democratic process. It is not fine to claim neutrality between an entity that supports democracy and one that is actively trying to end it.

We need to know that Proton and its leadership are committed to the democratic process and does not support any party that is actively (or passively for that matter) trying to remove, or reduce the rights available to groups or individuals it considers undesirable. That includes rights to privacy as well as all other inherent human rights. This trancends typical left/right political ideation and is a foundational moral imperitive.

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This event was handled very poorly with the proton mod team deleting the original post on reddit as well as mass deleting comments and follow up posts. This is not the behavior expected of a good faith company, especially when many comments rightly suggested a pinned megathread in the meantime between the original post and the official statement.

In the future the community would like to see Proton and its leadership affirm its commitment to basic human rights and the democratic process through concrete actions. It is not sufficient to simply state a stance of political neutrality after the aforementioned events.

If Proton or its leadership has any intention of abandoning its neutral stance in favor of supporting, funding, or platforming far right idealougues, now would be the time to clear that up.

It would also be highly recommended to turn over the moderation of the Proton subreddit to an impartial 3rd party. It does not seem that the company's current social media team is up to the task of moderating properly without giving the impression of mass censorshpi and suppression.

For those who are curious, the far right person in question is Vincent Lapierre. He is a Youtuber with sponsorship from Proton and has ties to Dieudonné (a Holocaust denier). He founded Le Média pour tous, a far-right website that particularly targets anti-fascists and defenders of Jewish rights.

The CEO is developing/has developed a habit of supporting right wingers, as is shown by another recent incident in which he supported the Trump administration on Twitter/X.

Proton and its representing officers should ensure their efforts and communications remain politically neutral. I'm personally about as far-left as you can be but I don't expect Proton to start requesting that workers seize their workplaces and overthrow Capitalism. That isn't their mission.

If Proton wants to cozy to the far-right I'll have no choice but to de-Proton just as I have de-Googled.

This is really disgusting

Far right aside you should not sponsor any political influencer as a private company that s supposed to be neutral. Here the youtuber in question is an anti-semite holocaust denier, that cant be tolerated.
On top of all that you also censor every posts on reddit talking about it.

Very bad form.

This is certainly an ungly event and Proton should have done better research before partnering with a political figure leaning to the far right. They should go with a public statement to inform users of this, leaving it up to the users if they also want to support a concerning far right wing support trend in the tech world.

This is super important. Proton, please listen!

This is truly so disappointing and is enough for me to leave.

The CEO has now made a pattern of, at minimum, being friendly towards right wingers when it suits him/his company. At worst, genuinely is a supporter of right wing, fascist movements in governments. The silencing of their own user base when concerns are brought to them publicly says a lot.

The company policy of being "neutral" to politics at large is disingenuous and unrealistic. It's simply cover for "we will engage and support where we see benefit to us, regardless of wider political party ideology". Do better.

This is very disappointing. I posted in the proton mail subreddit and it was instantly deleted. If they want to support the far right, they should at least defend themselves.