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[–] [email protected] 70 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (20 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2ff6q/call_for_andy_yen_to_resign/

UPDATE: Andy Reply

According to Andy's logic, if Hitler were the president of some unfortunate country, we should differentiate the boss from his good nominees. Even using a company founded by an entire community to show a good evaluation made by one of its founders to give him a loving pat on the back and show the world that he is not completely bad as they think, but not meaning that the founder agrees with all his innocent actions, of course, such as disregarding the rights of many people around the world because they are just part of the democratic game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

le false equivalence totally validates my endorsement for the worst president elected in US history

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Brother we've been arming and supporting a full-on ethnic extermination and bombing anyone who tries to stop it for over a year now. We're past flirting with fascism, we've bought a dog and moved onto a studio apartment with fascism. Fascism is making us coffee and thinking about opening an Etsy store to sell all the gold tooth fillings.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

andy88, if he cares about proton, should have resigned yesterday

[–] [email protected] 42 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

Isn't 88 neo-Nazi code for "heil Hitler"? And isn't putting it in binary to disguise it evidence that he knows full well what it means?

[–] [email protected] 94 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

As much as I'm not terribly fond of the guy, IIRC he's 36, which makes '88' likely short for 1988, the year he was born.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That’s correct, he was asked about it on Reddit too and confirmed it was just his birth year.

Since it’s a common dog whistle though I do think it’s always worth questioning. Particularly when it’s tied to someone licking Trump’s boots.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago

8 is also a lucky number in Chinese culture. I've seen a lot of "88"s in Chinese social media just because of that.

It always sucks when shitbags co-opt innocent symbols and language.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Oh OK, that makes sense. Still, an unfortunate choice of username that could add to the confusion.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

He's from Asia where the number 8 have a good luck meaning, so is likely is not related to the 88 neo nazis uses.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 12 hours ago

He's kind of right on the money and kind of being completely dumb.

The fact of it is that Republicans don't want to help privacy or take down big tech's abuses, they want to make it worse. All of the reasonable things Andy has said have taken place past that, so in a way the entire conversation is talking past the point.

The question is, how can somebody so influential at a major privacy company not have such a pre-school understanding of major world figures' relationships to his core business?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 12 hours ago

Andy will one day find out that, in the eye of the magat beholder, he is nothing but yellow. I hope he enjoys getting spent as the token he has become.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

All he had to do was keep his mouth shut & show his support on another account

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