I DO find it a disingenious move by the mullvad guy tho as it seems the donation lends itself to lobbying for more state surveillance, generating an environment to make their product more attractive 🤔

Mullvad and Tor have something in common: they're run by Jesuits behind the scenes. The organizations have frontmen who "own" them. It's all they way up the the Superior General of the Jeusits.

What's the context here Sam? I must have missed something...?

One's getting money from a bad org, and the other is giving money to a bad org.

Tor gatekeeping Mullvad's donations while its own budget has leaned on federal grants for years — onion routing was literally born at the Naval Research Lab — is a purity test it flunks first. The pattern is familiar: institutions start policing other people's funding politics right around when ...