# Everything in Proton or Using different services?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/everything-in-proton-or-using-different-services/29664
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-08-01T20:16:47Z
**Posts:** 31
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## Post 29 by @anon92357554 — 2025-08-25T15:25:11Z

The conversation in a nutshell

> **Andy Yen** : Gail Slater is a great pick and Republicans are the only one standing up for the little guy  
> **Public Outcry** : Hmmm… _Full-throated_ support of the incoming administration/Gail Slater seems odd since they haven’t signaled that they care about privacy or anti-trust outside of breaking apart ‘woke’ companies? This isn’t going to end well.  
> **Gail Slater** : _Less than 6 months into the job and Slater has had her deputies fired for not pushing through a bad merger, and she has become a toothless yes-(wo)man for the administration_  
> **Paraphrasing your response** : How could Andy Yen have _possibly_ known we would end up here when he supported Gail Slater, who left her anti-trust work to be a lobbyist for big tech?

Not you specifically, but generally there is a Libertarian streak among many privacy forums that has a large blind spot. Most of us can objectively see in Europe how ‘protect children on the internet’ is a pretext to erode privacy, or in retrospect how government used 9/11 to erode our privacy, yet every current Republican anti-privacy directive goes unchallenged.

There’s obvious examples like aggregating governmental data for ‘efficiency’ that just so happens to [create more expansive data profiles on every American](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-musk-data-access.html), to pushing through laws that allow [ISPs to sell user data for profit](https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/president-trump-signs-resolution-killing-internet-privacy-rules-allowing-isps-to-keep-selling-your-data/), or creating a pipeline for [your personal health data to be shared with big-tech](https://www.wpbf.com/article/trump-health-tracking-system-privacy-concerns/65554668) by default, or things like [requiring IDs in the US to ‘protect the children’](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/wyoming-and-south-dakota-age-verification-laws-could-include-huge-parts-of-the-internet/30066), or things like [giving private Governmental data to Palantir to compile a police state](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/how-palantir-is-powering-a-new-age-of-authoritarian-control/ar-AA1G0AGm), yet there is little/no interest on the majority of the board to reflect critically on whether the administration is pro-privacy or anti-privacy, and subsequently, what it means when a pro-privacy CEO is seen giving the effusive praise.

**Bringing things back on topic, I would encourage that users diversify their privacy services to hedge risk** I care about privacy more than Proton’s profitability, I don’t think I can say the same for Andy Yen given his statements.

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