cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8915892

(original article in Swedish that reported this)

Posting this because I hadn’t heard about it before and I’m probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.

I’m not Swedish, but going off NATOpedia, it seems like the party is basically reinventing fascism from first principles:

The party claims to stand for a “class-conscious populism” which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the “productive” classes of society against the “Transferiat”, with the “Transferiat” being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work “made-up services”[…]

The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that “live off transfers”, as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.

visible-disgust Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)

Even if you’re comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.

I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it’s not great emilie-shrug

  • big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    when the fascist state comes for you, they find very little info to convict you with

    how do we tell him?

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      2 days ago

      What I mean is the best you can hope for is to minimize the damage done to yourself. sure the nazis can just make up whatever charge and condemn you to whatever they want. But the Filton 24 trial showed that to date, it wasn’t always a slam dunk. The fact that the prosecution leaked selected bits of evidence footage helped shift the jury and even the case.

      this is also why people have got to stop filming everything btw. Filming ought to be strategic; it’s a tool, not a ritual. Basically the best you can do is limit what they can get on you, and make it difficult for them (and it might also protect your comrades since they look for connections). Same reason I encrypt my hard drives; Al Capone was done in for tax evasion, not for the murdering and killing. If they want to compel me to surrender my decryption key, it still affords me some time to think about it.

      Of course a VPN alone is not going to save anyone, we should make that clear. If you have a VPN but still connect to a google account to do google searches with, police will just ask for your search history from google directly, they don’t need to decrypt your hard drive to access it.

      Browsers also fingerprint you, and there are add-ons and even browsers such as Librewolf to fake your fingerprint, but I’m not sure how secure you truly are after it.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      I can only guess you’re referencing that the state can go after you regardless. Which is technically true, but making it harder for them to do it “legitimately” (through the existing bureaucracy of the state) does have its advantages. It means if they push forward and do it anyway, they may now damage the legitimacy of the state in the eyes of more people, creating more resistance in the process. It’s not like you’re gonna have a revolution from that alone, but… basically, if you can avoid handing the state easy ways to legitimize coming for you, that is worth something.