@berdario

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@berdario/116829226674208408

So, a thread for Mullvad alternatives:

- https://www.ivpn.net/ (Gibraltar, British entity)
- https://airvpn.org (Italian entity, but amusingly blocks italian residents from subscribing)
- https://windscribe.com/ (based in Canada)

Anyhow, one of the reasons that I was happy to use Mullvad, was the fact that they were one of the first to have adopted Wireguard, and they funded its development...

Well, guess what? They don't even appear among the current Wireguard sponsors

https://www.wireguard.com/donations/

It was just a (one-off?) donation in 2022, maybe substantial, but not continuative support. So, in 2025... The money that Mullvad earned financed more far-right policies than open source.

Donations - WireGuard

Switching to another VPN provider is likely to mean that they just haven't *yet* dropped their mask and revealed to be ghouls

OTOH, there's still value in switching, especially if the new provider is actually a co-op (where a CEO won't hoard most of the profits, thus granting them outsized economic power that they can boost/bribe politicians with)

it's getting more money in the tech sector, it's bolstering western media primacy and it's extracting value through the sexual exploitation of content creators.

Access to opponents propaganda might just be the only thing which doesn't align with capitalists interests... For everything else, it feels very much like "freeze peach" is a fig leaf to allow them to do whatever they want.

From this point of view, switching to ...

There's also a "privacy" angle... trusting a tunnel/VPN provider, it's just like trusting your ISP. As long as all your traffic is encrypted, you already have privacy, and a privacy-respecting VPN provider will just restore the privacy that you would've otherwise lost by putting all your eggs in a single basket (all your traffic through a single provider)

Anyhow, of course the anarcho-capitalists and the worst kind of libertarians will appreciate most of those use cases:

- grant geopolitical opponents people access to platforms controlled by the west (where propaganda can be more granularly boosted, and dissent allowed to trickle)
- grant people in the west access to opponents propaganda
- grant access to porn
- grant access to content blocked for other reasons (e.g. pirated football matches streaming, streaming platform region-locking)

RE: https://toots.matapacos.dog/@sudoer777/116825458214660173

The "economic power" bit, and this other comment:

https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/116828265274883212

Drawing the parallel with VC-funded tech bros and their "freeze peach" absolutism, are highlighting another important issue.

I suspect that not only the industry, but even (most) of the motives for work on tunnels, VPNs and TOR is highly problematic.

I sometimes use VPNs, also to enable family to workaround censorship... But think about what tunnels are most used for nowadays:

even the anglos in the ACP aren't supporting remigration and are opposing ICE (afaict), and ACP is the most prominent example of a tailist, right-deviationist party.

- Stewarding nationalism in Sweden is highly suspect
- A policy of more deportations for minoritised communities is a really bad idea

So, I've seen arguments that given their other policies, using the label "far right" might've been a bit simplistic. That might be true, but if you espouse far-right policies, the description might be more right than wrong.

I've also seen descriptions comparing it to the German's BSW, but afaik BSW doesn't support remigration. Heck...

About the post that I boosted earlier (and another reply I left):
Marxism is good, and nationalism has its place and time: namely, when building a community that wants to overcome colonial occupation or neocolonial exploitation.
I think that Luna Oi explained it better: https://youtu.be/CkbSYIyzmF0

Nationalism in Vietnam has a very different character than nationalism in Sweden.

I don't have a complete understanding of Swedish society or the Örebro party, but two things to me are clear:

NATIONALISM

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