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It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it. It most likely was a bad idea; most things where there are a multitude of conflicting opinions necessarily are. But societies need a great diversity of ideas, initiatives and organizations who can be tested and sifted until the best ones remain. Ideally through rational debate.
Daniel’s rationale and points of view can be read on his personal blog.
Mullvad will continue to keep its values and mission separate from the broader views of its founders. Not least because the founders have always been in strong disagreement on important issues, including this one. This narrow focus has served us well for 17 years and will do so going forward too.
So they said nothing at all?
They notably did not promise that no more money we gave them would be funnelled into white nationalist causes.
Too little, too late for me. Even if the company didn’t make the donation, the salary he used to make it came from Mullvad.
If you are a VPN company and one of your co-founders and owners is a Nazi type while the other one defends him it’s not even about where your money is going, it’s about being fundamentally untrustworthy and unprincipled.
I do understand your point. I have a hard time forming my opinion. Let me be clear, it clearly is shitty that he donated to some fuckwads. But you’re free to give money to whoever you want with your salary, why wouldn’t he be?
He is free to use his Mullvad salary to fund Nazi types. That was never the question.
The question is do you want to help generate his salary for him by doing business with Mullvad? You’re free to do that. I won’t give this company another penny.
It can be so hard to be principled in the modern day. However, since there are readily available VPN providers who aren’t owned by people funding Nazis, this isn’t a hard call to make.
Call me a tin foil hatter, but I think this was strategically brought up to stir up infighting
Infighting among whom? Mullvad customers?
