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Post #3447486

2026-06-28 11:23 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100 This is immensely disappointing, @mullvadnet@mastodon.online. Your co-CEO is funding far-right authoritarians. Authoritarianism is not compatible with free speech – anyone who claims to be fighting for free speech has to be aware of this. In fact, the reason we need free speech is to fend of authoritarianism! You used "free speech" to defend anti-free-speech views. This is the "paradox of tolerance". Only, it is not a paradox. Allowing intolerance erodes a tolerant society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance #Mullvad

Replies (24)

  • @ilumium@eupolicy.social 2026-06-28 13:04

    @rysiek@mstdn.social Also, dear @mullvadnet@mastodon.online, you of all companies should know that you don't get to pick-and-choose the human rights you like and to whom they can apply. Your CEO (and in extension the company) is either supporting *all* human rights universally for *all people*, including the right to asylum and to live free of discrimination, or you don't support them at all. You can't just support #privacy and #FreeSpeech, shit on the rest and claim to be pro-human rights.

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  • @elCelio@mastodon.uno 2026-06-28 11:32

    @rysiek@mstdn.social It looks like a "Schroedinger" company "Mullvad is a political company" "Daniel's donation to a political party is private " It's like: Pay for our services because of our political values, but do not consider which political values our money supports.

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  • @mwl@io.mwl.io 2026-06-28 12:01

    @rysiek@mstdn.social The paradox of tolerance is based on a misunderstanding of tolerance. Tolerance is not a moral precept. Tolerance is a peace treaty that only binds those who agree to it.

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  • @AngelicAura@transfem.social 2026-06-28 12:02

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I don't have an active subscription to them, but I had an account number and would usually rest easy in the knowledge that there's something that actually cares about privacy. Enough to allow payment with paper money Well, I guess I have a newly open position for an in-case vpn, should anyone have any recommendations

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  • @adamking@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 12:22

    @rysiek@mstdn.social Any good alternatives?

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  • @Davide_Sandini@mastodon.uno 2026-06-28 13:34

    @rysiek@mstdn.social Authoritarian-minded always likes free speech, until they reach the power. After, they repress it because they are in favour of only their free speech.... @mullvadnet@mastodon.online

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  • @firn@scholar.social 2026-06-28 13:36

    @rysiek@mstdn.social Boo, wish I didn't know this..

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  • @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online And IKEA is included in this? Look at the past of their founder. App deleted btw

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  • @vanzick@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 13:50

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online Eeeks and I just renewed my subscription with them. I’m so tired of funding fascists that wouldn’t hesitate to send me to a gulag just because of where I come from. Could we also use this post to advocate for alternatives? Need to find a new provider now 🫠

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  • @samiamsam@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 14:10

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online they need to read up on Popper's Paradox of Tolerance if you tolerate intolerance, eventually intolerance takes over completely nazis are bad, there is no 'other side' intolerance, bigotry, racism, misogyny do not have an 'other side' they are bad and wrong and should not be tolerated

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  • @samiamsam@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 14:29

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online if you recently paid for service, ask for a refund most companies have polices about refunds, especially if it is shortly after renewal

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  • @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-06-28 15:21

    @Jokk_Wolfhard@mastodon.social @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online It's just another Mastodon witch-hunt that's throwing words at the screen. It will pass

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  • @s_d_brath@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 15:46

    @Jokk_Wolfhard@mastodon.social @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online and those fascists would love nothing more than a party like Orebro to get more power.

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  • @rysiek@mstdn.social 2026-06-28 15:47

    @Jokk_Wolfhard@mastodon.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I struggle to treat this question as one posed good faith, looking how you *just* joined fedi, have no profile picture, no bio, and this seems to be your first post. So I am not going to go deep into it other than: beyond the reporting out in the public, which in itself is pretty clear, my Swedish friends with plenty of local context tell me this is a far-right authoritarian party, and I have no reason not to trust their assessment.

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  • @Jokk_Wolfhard@mastodon.social @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online Hey, look, a zero-follower freshly-created sockpuppet account!

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  • @jbqueru@floss.social 2026-06-28 15:53

    @rysiek@mstdn.social I like how the French constitution frames freedom as the right to do things that do not hurt others. That implies that there's no such thing as an absolute freedom.

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  • @inwis@nerdculture.de 2026-06-28 16:11

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I'm completely logged out. Not a € more from me.

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  • @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online Sooner or later this was gonna happen :KEKW:

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  • @markwyner@mas.to 2026-06-28 17:41

    @rysiek@mstdn.social This was a heart breaker, to be sure. More their company response than the action of the individual, even. https://markwrites.io/if-your-company-funnels-money-to-fascists-youre-a-fascist-company @mullvadnet@mastodon.online

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  • @ku@c.im 2026-06-28 17:52

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I wonder what the @torproject@mastodon.social have to say about this, considering their "collaboration" on Mullvad Browser: "Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project" : https://mullvad.net/en/browser

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  • @byteborg@chaos.social 2026-06-28 17:57

    @rysiek@mstdn.social it says it right on the tin: "We protect the right" (as in not the left, or any others) /s

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  • @Anibyl@social.coop 2026-06-29 23:18

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I will take my money elsewhere — I'm not helping to fund this shit.

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  • @Irishmasms@defcon.social 2026-06-30 16:40

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online sad to hear you are a Nazi bar

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  • @OldSquida2@kolektiva.social 2026-07-03 12:04

    @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/ “quit your job and quit playing defense for fascists” ~ Håkan Geijer https://kolektiva.social/@hakan_geijer/116822981441351563

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