I agree that they are facists but they seem to have an incredible focus on Hitler and Nazism imported from Nazi Germany.

Huge thanks for the links.

For example, reading the articles, it’s impossible to determine if you just read 10 articles about 10 different events, or 10 articles about the same event, because the articles don’t include enough detail. Yet, if people read the same headline then times, they’re going to think it must be true. I’ve gotten into it with people here on Lemmy where they tell me how wrong I am and just look at all these examples of Israel doing a thing, and then they post three examples all talking about the same one event and they don’t even realize.

First off, thanks for the very detailed reply!

This is a very important point. Any numbers can be inflated. When early Zionists committed the Deir Yassin (?) massacre, many Palestinian freedom fighters inflated the real numbers to fear-monger others to join them in their fight. Some also downplayed the numbers for their own reasons. This is one of the things I’ve learned recently just reading about the history of this long conflict. Very interesting!

That being said, I’ve also come to understand that many evidence is video based and can be geolocated and confirmed using landmarks and so on. I doubt that they will only present their case using news articles with no footage/video evidence.

I totally agree that a history of war crimes doesn’t mean Israel is committing all of them 🤣

However one thing that stood out for me was not having allowed adequate aid in. On one hand, Israel says it’s providing enough aid. On the other hand, the UN and every other organization are talking about some of the difficulties of getting aid in and some decisions that Israel has taken sound ridiculous though! I read they didn’t allow dates in, and many everyday items were branded as “dual use” and banned from entering (like scissors!!).

To me the news reports are too chaotic to make a case against Israel, but the throttling of aid entering while also conducting military operations at every single hospital in Gaza could, in my opinion, be strong indicators to use in a case against them at the ICC. Of course I know Hamas operates often from the midst of civilian crowds, but whether they were there in the hospitals or not may not play such a huge role because in the end a large number of civilians were harmed and life-saving and essential infrastructure was destroyed by Israel. It doesn’t look good for them even though I understand why it was necessary.

Good point. It can translate to direct money donations to a political party.

I wonder what kind of “republican” changes to Proton would be possible to put forth without angering the majority of users or defeating the point of Proton altogether. That’s why I don’t see this as a prelude to anything major. What do you think?

Yeah I can understand that completely.

And is there a risk he may invest money further into fascism?

Seems to me like the issue is that CEOs exist, not that this particular one has some personal opinion.

Fair enough! So what do you hope to accomplish with this action? Like, goal wise, is it to change Proton’s stance? Or is it more about being an ethical consumer?

But wouldn’t it be more productive to talk to Proton about this obviously crappy PR instead of descending into unnecessary cancelling of a perfectly good service?

And how do we know none of the other services also have fascists in their midst? This circle could go on forever until no services are left.

Asking seriously.

I don’t think any CEO I’ve ever worked for speaks for me…

Seems from the article the data was related to the IP address and device but contained no content otherwise since it goes against their policies. Could it be purely based on having to abide by the law of Switzerland?

Why treat Proton like it’s the work of a single person rather than a large team?

Can I ask though what that has to do with ignoring women? Do you mean all women altogether or just dating options?

Incel Inside.

He should have asked some genAI to write this 😐

Oh thanks for the article! I think I read something similar on Wikipedia but generally it seems that his statements mean that Canada does not agree with the case but is not necessarily siding with anyone, at least not explicitly. I don’t think they support South Africa nor Israel. I honestly respect Canada for its neutral stance on this… sometimes some things are just not one’s business nor in one’s interest so I feel like it’s not a bad idea say that one respects the ICCs decisions but doesn’t really agree with some of the cases while they are still under review.

I guess we will have to wait and see the decision. What do you expect the outcome to be? Do you think they have compelling evidence to prove it’s a full blown genocide? I don’t mean evidence like articles from biased media (like Al Jazera), but more like LEGAL evidence.

Yeah you’re right about the distribution. I found this on Wikipedia on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel Thought you might like it

It looks like Canada is neutral on the matter though. Like you said, they have a cool head. It’s not unwise to be on the fence on a matter that doesn’t relate to you directly.

Thanks for the thorough explanation! I would like to see some links for some things you mentioned (like the warnings being a hoax and blocking escape routes)… but most of the other stuff I was able to find online easily with google.

But so… does Israel value the destruction of Hamas more than the civilian lives of Palestinians in Gaza? I feel like the cost is too high. 🤔 don’t get me wrong, I am not a general but I don’t feel like I’d be okay with firing into a crowd of children and women in a residential area to kill X number of combatants, even if they snuck into these areas designated for civilians only 😅😅

I’ve had, hands down, one of the worst project managers in the world. Hewas overly concerned with team politics and toxicly positive. His toxic positivity was the main reason in my opinion as to why we never delivered anything usable to the company and were eventually downsized. He had no vision at all for quick and frequent delivery… he was the wrong person for the job but consistently believed that he just needed to “do his best for the day” and sleep happy that night. Meanwhile, his team was boiling with frustration and wasted work hours for features requested by management on a whim — these usually end up fully forgotten by the time they are production ready. His biggest accomplishment is somewhat shielding his team from upper management… sometimes. He was such a bottle neck and our team was a net loss to the company except where they could advertise “using AI” in their products. If he had been removed, and we (his team) had to manage things ourselves with the stakeholders, we would have probably been able to deliver something worthwhile every quarter or so.