Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup

speckx 27 points 13 comments July 21, 2026
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addedGone

> We cannot separate ethics from technology. Huh, yes, we can, writer's have the direct proof and still refuse to acknowledge it, aka that Mullvad, a COMPANY meaning a separated entity from the founders is doing great things for humanity, which proves that we can separate but still writer is obsessed with one of the shareholder and imply that Mullvad itself isn't an ethical company despite the contrary proven by multiple external auditors. This blog is honestly terrible, it seems that the writer is race-obsessed, half the articles are stuff about race, weird gender ideology, veganism, nazism... it literally feels like the garbage we see on Reddit, aggregated and parroted without substance, writer isn't proposing a solution to anything, he is just defaming people and companies and feels extremely judgmental, it's not at all accepting opinions of other people, it's imposing that the world has to be writer's way else it's wrong.

ashleyn

I feel like the analysis missing here is whether or not the Örebro Party supports policy that would eventually undermine internet privacy and freedom of speech - two missions that would directly contradict Mullvad's core mission of being a log-free VPN, and thus call into question whether or not they can continue to be trusted in a field where the stakes are high. The other policies they support don't look encouraging when you consider correlates of parties in other countries, but they seem to have not declared an explicit position for or against censorship and privacy, and they also seem to be a party where others' correlates may not apply here.

drcongo

The proletariat only have any power at all through strength in numbers. Rich people want them to fight with each other, because when they do that, they're powerless. Daniel Berntsson is rich - it's in his interests to stir up hate and division amongst the working classes, and what better way to do that than give a load of money to a party for whom that is raison d'être.

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