u/DecimusKaeso

It'll be interesting to see how many accounts get flagged as teen accounts.

Removed by the moderators. Trying to hide and censor the facts. Streisand effect will get them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/s/2mngRfdZAn

Tänker ni skicka in era ansikten till Reddit?

Proton is sponsor of the German far-right / conspiracy Youtuber Ben Berndt. Similar to Vincent Lapierre, Berndt presents himself as a "neutral" reporter, while actually providing an uncritical platform for rightwing-extremists, anti-democratic conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, islamists, sexists and criminals.

In his videos, he not only lets them spread their dangerous lies unquestioned, he also tries to humanize them and downplay their claims, while often repeating far-right rhetoric himself.

Notable guest example is Björn Höcke, a facist who repeatedly downplays the holocaust and glamorizes Nazi ideology, makes threats against the german democracy and is one of the leading figures of the German rightwing-extremist AFD party.

But unlike with Lapierre, Proton cannot claim they did not know who this channel is, because the Proton CEO himself appeared for a long interview on April 8, 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTCkiWju46o

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Source Proton sponsorship: https://linktr.ee/ungeskriptet_werbepartner

Archived version (in case it gets deleted): https://archive.ph/2NT8u

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Link to the post of Lapierre's sponsorship: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1tzbizh/proton_is_funding_the_french_far_right_on_youtube/

#Update: Proton official answer https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/KT5igbU8rt

Edit for further details:

Proton is currently sponsoring the far-right French YouTuber Vincent Lapierre.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lapierre

It’s not just an affiliate link, but a partnership announced in the description and through an entire 2min 20s segment embedded in the video.

I don’t want to provide a direct link to the video here so as not to help boost its visibility, but you can easily find it on YouTube if you want (the last week video). Here is the English translation of the text shown in the screenshot:

>🔒 Thanks to ProtonMail for this partnership! Take back control of your digital life for free with Proton Mail by clicking here.

Vincent Lapierre’s Wikipedia page is quite explicit about his far-right positioning and includes numerous sources. He worked for several years for a far-right organization founded by Alain Soral, which promotes anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracist, sexist, masculinist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas, and who fled to Russia to escape justice.

He is close to Dieudonné (a Holocaust denier). He founded Le Média pour tous, a far-right website that particularly targets anti-fascists and defenders of Jewish rights. He has always been close to conspiracist circles

It's not very surprising when you remember that ProtonMail’s CEO had already publicly expressed support on Twitter for a member of the Trump administration.

I initially wanted to post this information on the ProtonMail subreddit to ask for an explanation and find out whether it was a mistake, but they did not approve the post. I also tried on tech subreddits here, but they consider it off-topic and as "a conspiracy theory".

On the contrary, I think ProtonMail customers and potential customers should be informed about where their money goes and should be able to ask ProtonMail for explanations regarding these choices.