David Chartier
It looks like @protonprivacy directly supported a far right French YouTuber who is a holocaust denier and pro-hate just about everything that isn’t a straight white dude.
Not just an automated ad, it was a direct sponsorship for which the YouTuber thanked Proton.
David Chartier
@troed @gatogatogato @holgi @protonprivacy "Divide our community."
Being a holocaust denier isn't 'divisive,' it's anti-semitism and sheer denial of history. He's a pro-hate preacher for everything and everyone who isn't a straight white dude.
Proton, their CEO, and their comms team need need to grow a spine.
Troed Sångberg
" You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.
Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.
Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.
We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.
But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.
If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance. "
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/
Troed Sångberg
Yeah that's just another long thread of people piling on what they've heard from someone who has heard from someone who has heard ... ad nauseum.
Apparently Proton will make a statement. I'll read that before I feel the need to voice any outrage. It seems commenters on that thread believe someone at Proton must've been involved in adding the in-video section.
I guess Redditors don't know how computers work. I expect more from people on Mastodon.
gato
@chartier @holgi @protonprivacy It's gaining a lot of traction right now. @troed
Troed Sångberg
@chartier This one is tricky.
(I'm a former Pirate Party activist/politician so this is something I've spent quite some time ruminating over)
I'd love it if Proton just said "fascists fuck off our services". However. Trying to _police_ that would mean that their services weren't privacy protecting.
Instead they're saying "we're going to protect everyone's privacy as far as the law allows us to" - which is fair. It's exactly the same thing I'm saying to the users that sign up to my Matrix server.
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