The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.
~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/
What the fuck did I just see?? Mullvad after Proton… So sad… :(
Proton didn’t actually do anything like this, they agreed to an affiliate partnership with a youtuber without knowing the political context of his French-language videos, and then ended the partnership when they got complaints. I don’t think that’s the same.
What’s up with every VPN company being facist right wing fucks?!
I’m white. Irish decent really which to a lot of whites isn’t quite white. I don’t fear brown folk but these ‘pure’ inbreds fear it on some level that has nothing to do with reality.
Thanks guys for posting this and for suggesting alternatives. I’ll look into airvpn I guess. Fuck anyone who wants to make society worse by giving into their worst character traits and base instincts.
God. Fucking. Dammit.
Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.
He must have entered that milieu after my time, even though we’re roughly the same age.
What’s up with his style of communication? Feels like he’s writing while drunk. I find it a bit strange that you can get into town hall even with that kind of posture, but I suppose some people find it edgy.
What’s your thoughts and the general opinion of this party? It seems to have been called left and right wing.
I did see reports that Allard allegedly called Somalian immigrants parasites and wants mass remigration.
His views on immigration seem bad, but I’m wary of this being media sensationalism to ruin the reputation of mullvad because they don’t want people using VPNs.
W Mullvad L leftists
are you stupid? mullvad starts with M not W
look-up empathy
Is your last name “Berntsson”?
So Mullvad is over. What’s the next best VPN?
I literally just ran out of time on my subscription too lol.
AirVPN allows port forwarding and supposedly keeps no logs. I don’t remember if they’ve been audited or not
Edit: No audit. So we can’t be sure about the logs claim. They DO have payments over monero though, so that’s nice at least.
Ya, I am also moving to AirVPN.
Maybe we can “pressure” them into doing an Audit. Their linux GUI client sucks, but we can use the CLI client just fine. I just wish they had an AUR official version.
🤦🏻♂️I just renewed mine for a year. Guess that gives me plenty of time to start looking for a replacement
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.
So they’re orthodox left instead of identity driven rad libs? That’s actually kind of based, although I’m completely in the dark about the internal politics of Sweden, but if their focus is on class unity it’s based.
i would be very curious why örebropartiet has anything to do with malmö
That’s not the same organisation. Flamman is a newspaper as well, totally separate organisation.
Ah. I thought it was the same. How can they be allowed to use the same name? Trademark should stop these kind of confusions. The news paper was first, I assume.
Think the newspaper organisation’s name is Tidningsföreningen Norrskensflamman.
[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.
How can the national socialist party be right wing? They said they’re socialists!
/s fucking obviously I hope.
"Allard and his party have been described as a nationalist[6], left-wing populist and right-wing populist.[7] He has also been accused of being a communist.[6] Biography
From 2009 to 2013, Allard was chairman of the Young Left’s district organisation in Örebro. He worked for the election campaign of Oumar Mariko in Mali during the 2012 Malian coup d’état.[8][9] "
“In a post from 2012 Allard criticized the state of Israel and wrote that “Cuba is going to be placed under an embargo but the fascist apartheid state of Israel is defended until the last Palestinian child has been incinerated. Liberal politics.”[17] In 2025 he again referenced the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and wrote that he “does not give a shit” about Israel or Palestine and that he thinks it is wrong to kill children regardless of which side perpetuates it.[18]”
“The Örebro Party with Allard as its leader says it wants to cut the salary for politicians and use that money to make dental care free/subsidized by the money taken from the politicians salaries.[25] On the topic of lowering the work hours Allard, in 2026 in the municipal assembly, voted in favor of a proposal by the Left party to enable a 30 hour work week with retained salary for some welfare occupations such as preschool teachers and employees at care facilities as a trial project that would after two years be evaluated.[26]”
Huh what kind of adhd of an ideology is this lmao.
Def sounds like something would come up from up north. Disconnected and thinks they know what’s best for everyone (but themself first before anyone)
I’m sure they’ll find their great place within the eyes of whoever nutjub is going to be put in to the seat after trump.
Fuck this world man. Seriously. Idk what to say or think anymore.
Instead of a concrete ideology, it seems like a handful of unrelated policies strung together. Like he held no opinion on anything until he decided (via ADHD? Unclear) to. But only on very specific things. No broader ideology.
I’m basing that entirely on this comment thread so I don’t really know anything I guess.
Lemmy in shambles lol
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.
Italy is a 14 eyes countries which disqualifies any VPN service thats hosted there.
What about IVPN?
I am in Italy, AirVPN is Italian, and every page of their site states that you cannot access their services if you’re an Italian resident.
Any idea why?
Not sure if this was rhetorical but here’s an earnest response
Thank you I was genuinely not aware.
That said, and please tell me if I am wrong, it is this VPNs choice to conduct things in such a way that would make them liable to have any kind of problem with the authorities since the norm asks them to report if “the providers become aware” which implies logging and analysis.
I am not sure there is any law asking them to do that, although there may well be.
They look trustable (no email, payment in monero, no tracking) but they’re incorporated in Italy which is one of the stupidest countries in the world for this purpose
Have you ever wondered why usually VPN companies are based in countries like Cyprus, Panama, virgin islands or Labuan?
Yeah that’s a good point haha tax havens for the W I guess. On another note, I think Proton VPN is also a good alternative since they’re based in Swiss, where data protection laws are mega strict.
Proton has given user data to the FBI and French authorities.
If you have an account with them you should remove the recovery email and credit card. Those are the two things they can share AFAIK.
Y’all assume privacy is some left-of-center thing?
You ever notice how the right always assumes privacy is only for pedos? That’s what they use it for, they can’t imagine any other use for it.
I’m confused, what makes you think anyone here thought privacy is some left-of- center thing? Do you mean we should accept that our VPN provider is spending money to far right partys? Because it’s normal? Or what is your take?
Well shit. I need to change to airVPN now. I’m worried as I’ve heard people had their IP’s leaked to their ISP with AirVPN, BUT that could have also been user error.
Oh shit, what kind of things can my ISP do if it figures out my IP!? Am I safer if I unplug the wire they probably just use to spy on me? I’m gonna unplug it, just to be sa
Yeah VPN has a purpose but the way people seem to believe they won’t be fingerprinted or that DPS isn’t a thing is worrying.
Yeah, a solution to some problems is not a solution to others.
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
IVPN is good. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/#recommended-providers
Idk how this Airvpn suggestions are popping up. Never even heard them before.
I’ve heard of them, but I don’t know much about them.
As for IVPN:
IVPN previously supported port forwarding, but removed the option in June 2023. Missing this feature could negatively impact certain applications, especially peer-to-peer applications like torrent clients
I’m unsure about the whether airvpn is owned by fascists but it seems to fit the rest of your criteria and at least on paper is italian
Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.
When you smell something bad when you’re next to someone, it’s probably them.
When you smell something bad when you’re next to anyone, it’s probably you.
You know I hear this thing called nord I’m sorry I can’t finish without laughing
What is it about them that’s especially bad?
NORD VPN! To protect your phone from being hacked because surely that’s what a VPN does! BUY NORD VPN NOW!
I think AirVPN fits that criteria, no?
I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking.
Njalla is owned by Peter Sunde and almost fits the bill.
Minus the exit nodes around the world.
njalla censors queer voices and holds their DNS hostage for it. njalla is not to be trusted.
i cannot comment further on the specifics here sadly but I will never give njalla a single fucking penny, personally
Proton?
Unless I’m mistaken, also problematic
What’s the problem with Gail Slater?
