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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 Trump has in fact repealed this EO as of August 2025 with EO Executive Order 14337.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.
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This is going to be more and more important going forward given that more and more legislation targeting vpns is being introduced in the US as well as other countries.
Whether or not these laws are well intended not relevant. They will kill privacy on the internet.
Being able to obfuscate vpn use is the next obvious step in defending privacy on the web.