Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson donates millions to local fascist that supports forced "remigration" of Swedish non-white citizens
2026-06-26 15:59 UTC
Replies (18)
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@myrmidex@belgae.social 2026-06-26 16:07
Anyone has any decent anglophone sources on this yet?
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@therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-26 16:09
Same ole’ Europe.
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@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-26 16:12
“so called VPN services” shows the bias of the author.
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@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-26 16:30
“Five million kroner. That’s how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown by the party’s income statement, which Flamman has read.” Without a link I guess I’ll just trust that the reporter is telling the truth /s
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@bourgeoisie_burgers@hexbear.net 2026-06-26 16:44
Wtf , so commercial vpns are dead to me now. What’s the best option? a small cloudserver plus a proxy of some sort?
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-06-26 17:03
Motherfucker… What is it with VPN providers and fascism? Are there any VPN providers that don’t have fascist CEOs (or that don’t sing praises about fascists) and have opensource clients? Proton already has a CEO who likes Trump, so I don’t trust it. I know of IVPN and Windscribe which have opensource VPNs. No idea about their bosses political leanings or donations.
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@cosmosaucer@hexbear.net 2026-06-26 16:59
what is it with vpn ceos n being fascists
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@0xtero@beehaw.org 2026-06-26 17:23
Oh well. Get some money, start kicking down. Is that the model? Rather disappointing, I have to say.
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@scytale@piefed.zip 2026-06-26 17:29
First, Bitwarden. And now Mullvad. Those were like the only two “good” things left that I use. Sigh.
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@leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-06-26 17:18
Wikipedia article on the party he donated to. Started off as a quasi-Marxist, became red fash seems to be the summation.
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@space_comrade@hexbear.net 2026-06-26 18:07
Ah fuck, are there any decent alternatives? I know no VPN CEO is going to be the most amazing person but can he at least be a meek liberal or something?
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@ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 2026-06-26 19:46
A constant reminder that a person can be right about one thing and wrong about another.
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@crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2026-06-26 21:45
Is this the same company that makes the browser? Mull
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@rangber@lemmy.zip 2026-06-26 22:29
Idk man. Is there more concrete source than this? People talk shit all the time.
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@CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 2026-06-27 03:34
5 minutes ago I read about the Proton guy donating to fascists. Now I read about the Mullvad guy donating to fascists. There’s nobody who makes VPNs who isn’t a fascist?!
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@bourgeoisie_burgers@hexbear.net 2026-06-27 14:13
github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/10682#is…
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@bourgeoisie_burgers@hexbear.net 2026-06-27 14:15
github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/10682
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@redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 2026-06-27 10:40
I don’t have an opinion on whether Örebropartiet is fascist or not, honestly that might be giving them too much credit. The party is really only known nationally for its front figure, Markus Allard – your typical anti establishment loudmouth that mostly attracts people that elsewhere would have been drawn to libertarian parties. Allard is not politically stringent – he’s previously belonged to Vänsterpartiet (the Left) and his grandfather was a well known parliamentarian of Socialdemokraterna (social democrats). Allard, a self described Marxist, is best known for quasi intellectual rants about a ”transferiat”. Essentially it’s about how working people are leached on, not only by capitalists, but by unemployed, immigrants, civil servants and people in ”bullshit jobs” type of roles.