The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party
2026-06-26 16:28 UTC
Replies (19)
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@Rose@lemmy.zip 2026-06-27 03:10
[Örebro Party leader] Allard has described himself as a Communist, and a Marxist A self-described communist promoting right-wing ideas? Lemmy is quite familiar with that concept.
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@Maroon@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 17:23
God bloody dammit. I genuinely LOVE Mullvad and have tried to use their (not so cheap) services. I feel in this economy, privacy comes at a price and I was happy to do this. Now, I realise my money is going to fund a POS far-right asshole. Proton supports Trump. Mullvad suports the far right. Is there any major privacy respective service provider that isn’t a bloody cunt?
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@_lilith@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 19:21
Is express VPN ok as an alternative or am I a dumbass?
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@voxel@feddit.org 2026-06-26 18:27
”This is a donation from me personally”, he writes in an email to Flamman.
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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-27 02:45
Anybody know of a VPN service that Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections) Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol Doesn’t have Israeli ownership Isn’t owned by fascists Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds So far, the ones with major problems are: Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership. CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli
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@Mooserider@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 17:58
Okay, so no Mullvad, no Proton, no NordVPN… What’s left that’s not gross or double plus ungood?
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@ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2026-06-26 20:50
You know who hasn’t given money to far right extremists? Proton and it’s founder. I remember when people went ape shit because the CEO, Andy Yen, approved of one of Trump’s pick for the antitrust division. Then the antitrust pick happened to be good at her job, so Trump fired her and people realized Andy wasn’t so wrong after all but still hated him. Everytime I tried to defend Proton, I got downvoted and insulted over this. Got called a MAGAt and a neo nazi sympethizer. I was told to use Mullvad and that it was so much better and I wouldn’t be encouraging some right wing sympathizer even though Andy Yen never took any political stance. Well who’s laughing now?
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@Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2026-06-26 23:11
Oh cmon! I trusted 'em to not shit in their pants, what next? We discover that Torvalds and Stallman are transphobic?
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@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 02:07
Why can’t we have nice things??!!
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@ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 2026-06-26 18:48
As a Swede - fuck that guy and the fucking Neo Nazis coming out of the goddamn woodwork everywhere. I was all-in on Mullvad, but that’s changing today. Anyone got a good recommendation for a DNS over HTTPS alternative that’s not owned by a racist/Nazi/Fascist asshole?
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@x00z@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 22:31
The title is misleading because it doesn’t mention the millions are in Swedish Krona (I presume). 5 million krona would be €450 800.
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@Shaunhitorigoto@lemmy.zip 2026-06-27 04:45
Ffs I was planning to switch to Mulvad since my Nord subscription is finally expiring next month, then I find this shit. I’m looking into AirVPN. They sound solid enuff.
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@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 17:13
IT company Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive remigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he tells Flamman. Five million kronor. That’s how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown in the party’s income statement, which Flamman has reviewed. Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad. “This is a donation from me personally,” he writes in an email to Flamman. The company has made large profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of 314 million kronor. The five million from Berntsson constitutes the majority – a full 72 percent – of the Örebro Party’s income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. ——————————————— That’s the entirety of the article the toot references. No idea what it means.
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@AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 05:34
Is there a self hosted VPN option?
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@roomy@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 22:01
Man and i just renewed my subscription. Why do people always get their shit twisted in politics or whatever, its not like they need the money, donate it instead. I HOPE this is fake. I find it hard to belive
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@halferect@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 06:17
So like you get a bunch of money and become evil.
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@Seimhe@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 20:18
The five million from Berntsson make up the majority – as much as 72 percent – of the Örebro Party’s income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. The money also seems to have been the triggering factor for the party’s decision to stand in the parliamentary elections. (machine translation) Fuck them. Not sure who to go with now. Paying monthly and not needing to remember to cancel were the main reason I used them. Also, it seems safer to assume that all tech companies are rotten until proven otherwise.
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@teslasaur@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 07:10
Örebropartiet is a conservative left party. Think China, rather than say AfD in germany. Flamman is also a shit show. The owners pretend to be left, but they gladly embezzle money from Malmö city. sydsvenskan.se/…/sydsvenskan-avslojar-flamman-lev…
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@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 23:49
The wiki for the Örebro Party actually describes it as not identifiable as left or right and the founder was actually far left. It also advocates for things like free dental care and anti-corruption. So things aren’t as simple as purely anti-immigration which is very populist in Sweden. The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus Allard, who is also the first party leader. Allard had previously held positions as substitute member of the Örebro municipal council and district chairman of the Young Left in Örebro; in December 2013 he was expelled from the Left Party and its youth wing Young Left for “liking” the Revolutionary Front, a militant revolutionary socialist and anti-fascist organization, on Facebook and refusing to disavow it when questioned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Örebro_Party