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Proton CEO responds to backlash after his post supporting Trump's selection sparks Reddit firestorm

On Reddit, it’s often a single post that ignites a firestorm of reactions. Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton Privacy, recently found himself in the hot seat after a seemingly innocuous commendation of Donald Trump’s nomination of Gail Slater as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. What started as a simple pat on […]

Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The US government has abandoned antitrust. Today, companies facing antitrust jeopardy can just pay key Trumpland figures a million bucks, and they will make a discreet visit to the fifth floor of the DoJ building, have a little shoofty around the Antitrust Division and the whole thing will just…go away:

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. Lynn

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech

Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI of illegal agreement to slow AI

Anthropic CEO acknowledged potential antitrust hurdles, writing that it would assist if the US government were to mediate ‘or at least enable’ cross-lab discussions

Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

Lina Khan on Twitter / X

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books —…— Lina Khan (@linamkhan) September 13, 2026

Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial

As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows

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Restoring Consumer Sovereignty: How Markets Manipulate Us and What the Law Can Do About It

Abstract. For decades, there has been broad consensus within antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer law scholarship that consumers make decisions i

“They’ll Just Make It Illegal”

Cryptocurrencies, Public Goods & the State Late last year, I and a colleague from HKS were meeting with a VC I’d gotten to know in San Francisco. As an opening salvo in the conversation, the VC…

"Proton To ‘Re-Interview’ Staff About AI To See Who Gets To Keep Their Job" - Can we get a comment on this please?

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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Last year, Google lost an antitrust case to Biden's DoJ. The DoJ lawyers beat Google like a drum, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google had deliberately sought to create and maintain a monopoly over search, and that they'd used that monopoly to make search materially worse, while locking competitors out of the market.

Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning

Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.

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I’m a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you’ve come seeking my political views, you’ve found the wrong Fareed.