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Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party (www.flamman.se)

submitted 2 days ago by zaylon@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

One downside is that if a western country ends up capturing someone or something important (like France arresting the Telegram CEO), then they might use them as leverage to attain the data on the service. So best case is nobody collects the data.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

100% agree. I'm trying to keep everything self-hosted, and j think I've made very good progress, but reaching total sovereignty is very hard. I'm guessing it'll be way easier once I retire and dont6really need to rely on some of the imposed shit anymore.