We have nurtured a culture of radical tolerance.

Some people have nurtured a radical intolerance against funding right extremism.

Not gonna give them a single cent from now on.

Gee, I wonder what the far-right thinks about letting leftists speak freely?

The conflation between a chud using mullvad vs using the profits from mullvad to fund a political party... Tf

"Why did I, a libertarian anarchist, support the Örebro Party (ÖP), which is neither, with a donation?"

shocked face

There is no stance that Mullvad can take on this in order to make me want to stay with them, since this is not an abstract, philosophical matter. It's simple: Daniel partially owns a pro profit company. I pay Daniel's company some money. Daniel reaps - as he should - parts of the company's revenue as wage (which is my money). Daniel uses that wage to fund whatever the hell he wants - as he should - with my money. I'm either fine with contributing to this or not. Period. I am not fine with it, so I'm flirting with IVPN.

even if you do believe in freedom of expression and information, why would you donate to a fascist group which have been using suppression of expression - either it is attacking immigrants, pushing age gate laws, or attacking trans rights - as their path to power?

I have no problem, if the service gets used for things I don't agree with (I will not know anyway). But I do have a problem when one of the founders I paid (with the money from my subscription) openly supports this kind of party. No hard feelings, but with that knowledge, I prefer to give my money to another VPN.

Got my refund from Mullvad so I'm fine now.

"aren't we living in a multicultural democracy, why can't the minorities and the racists just get along and be respectful of each others' ideas"

Absolutely pathetic response. I'm less likely to use them now than before I read this

It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it.

If they don't condemn donating to Nazis then they're Nazi's. Pretty clear. Proton VPN it is.

I think they're severely underestimating how valuable the recommendation of techies/word of mouth effect is to their business...

Most predictable response ever. Some shite about the free market of ideas and some other shite about the need to engage with "ideas you personally dislike".

In other words, we should give fascists a seat at the table and hope we can debate them away. Been there done that, doesn't work.

I don't expect a company to just condemn fascism completely unprompted. But in a situation like this, if you can't even commit to taking action to ensure that a fascist party does not receive any of your funding again, then your mission isn't worth shit.

I'm sure that the people who would be forcibly "remigrated" by this particular political party would not feel very free from authority and surveillance.

I have had a Mullvad account for many years. I now have an iVPN acc. It's a very simple choice for me. If Mullvad's success results in funding far right racists then I don't care to assist that happening

They try to distance themselves from it as much as they can, but at the end of the day he is using money he obtained from Mullvad (us) in ways some people don't like.

The only true way to stop it is for the CEO to leave the company and sell all shares and stakes...

Or to simply stop giving Mullvad money, which is what I've done. There are plenty other privacy focused vpns that don't have this issue.

What a weak statement. Not one mention of how the donation most likely came (in part) from customer funds.

Here's the statement from Mullvad's co-founder himself, which at least has some substance on the why: https://dberntsson.info/2026/07/20/orebropartiet/

Self-censorship out of fear is an even bigger dampener than direct censorship.

Man, I hate having to think about the effects of my actions before I do something. It's so much better to just do things, and then see if there are consequences.

/s