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Write to the Board of Trustees to ask for change (sh.itjust.works)
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There seems to be a lot of confusion here about the ownership structure of Proton.... "the CEO is beholden to shareholders!!!", etc...

Proton is not a publicly traded company... The largest shareholder is the non-profit whose mission is as follows:

Proton was created to serve the world, and the non-profit Proton Foundation ensures that this can never change. As Proton’s primary shareholder, the foundation exercises its control to ensure that Proton does not deviate from our mission to build a better internet that serves the interests of all of society. Our legally binding purpose is to further the advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world.

https://proton.me/foundation

please contact the Board of Trustees and ask for the removal of the CEO and CTO

mailto: foundation@proton.me

At least one of the Board members is on Mastodon

Tim Berners-Lee: https://w3c.social/@timbl (yes, THAT guy... the inventor or the mother-flipping ~~internets~~ world wide web)

Email alternatives are incredibly hard to build... it's not like forking a software repo if the devs go off the deep end. Proton is worth trying to save if the alternatives are going back to google or switching to some other small time player who is equally suceptible to having a CEO ruin everything without the governance structure to make changes like Proton (in theory) has.

Let's at least try

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[-] begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

But it's not a non-profit, it's a for-profit that's majority owned (51%) by a non-profit foundation... For now. The board can always decide to issue more shares and dilute the control of the non-profit or the board of the non-profit can decide to sell its shares for whatever reason. It's an unnecessarily complicated ownership structure. Signal is actually non-profit and doesn't have any of these issues.

Also, I'd like to point out that if it was a lower level employee spouting fascist nonsense they would have no problem firing them immediately and distancing themselves from the hateful comments, but CEOs almost always geta free pass to continue being pieces of shit and we're told to give them a chance and that it's their personal view and not the view of the company. It's bullshit. Andy NEEDS to GO!

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