let us not forget they changed the name to the department of war.

reading through the comments,

how would a company respond if you had a bot do your job interview in your place? or do your rent applications?

they wouldn’t accept it.

growing up, my first job as a teenager at a restaurant that had ridiculous uniforms, i lasted about two months. i realized it irritated me that the owner would hang out at the restaurant in street clothes but expected us to look like little dancing monkeys. i quit and never worked another job where the owner asked us to do things they would never lower themselves to do.

i understand on the surface jt sounds petty, but it has proven to be a fairly strong indicator of how employees are treated.

if the people in power look at those who make them money as less than, if those in power expect others to jump through hoops they wouldn’t do themselves, it’s time to seriously reevaluate the situation.

i can’t speak for the journalists who wrote the story, but i assume it’s due to how prominently proton markets their email as safe/private/encrypted and then it turns out they may be sharing data with the swiss government who then gives it to the us government.

it absolutely should be news when the company who heavily promoted themselves to normies as safe, encrypted, and private is sharing customers data which is ending up in the hands of authoritarian foreign governments who are hunting for protesters.

many people i know personally who, to this day deny covid was real, they personally knew people who died or were hospitalized and ventilated. yet they still deny it was real.

one of my family members who was in a coma for over a month and in the hospital for months still denies it was covid despite multiple doctors telling him otherwise. some people live in a very real state of denial entirely separated from reality.

sadly i’m not sure the person you replied to is too far off.