@arashi I would have provided some examples of people "just doing despicabe things because that's what they are forced to", but I'm sure you'd find them yourself, rather quickly.
These things don't matter. What matters is, an activist, (a human being, let's start with this), got arrrested for being a minor inconvenience to the Big Money. And @protonmail played a role and did their bidding, forced or not.
This incident has destroyed any and all trust in Protonmail. From now on, where's ANY guarantee that this is an isolated case? Where's ANY guarantee that their VPN is also not being monitored for *very specific accounts*?
That's a rhetorical, by the way. I don't expect an answer.
@drq @protonmail @rf there's no guarantee for anything ever, the VPN vs email IP privacy is dictated by the Swiss law not by ProtonMail. It's a very nuanced case from which we can learn a lot how to protect ourselves better from the state actors, yet people choose to dumb this down to unbearable levels and just complain instead of improving things. Good luck with that strategy.