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>You're devoting a lot of emotional energy

You're on the Internet. How are you surprised that someone is repeatedly responding in a thread about a very obscure topic, especially when people are posting conspiracy theories?

It's interesting to have these discussions. But it is funny that people's conspiratorial thinking now makes me a part of the conspiracy merely for pointing out easily verifiable facts.

>What is your relationship to either company?

I subscribe to Proton's services, so I was originally interested in finding out what actually happened. Now I'm interested in pointing out people's flawed reasoning because I think Proton is doing something valuable, and I don't want these attacks against them to go unanswered.

Since we're now part of this thread, as the attack on Proton was orchestrated initially by a competitor and seemed to use bot accounts on Twitter, how much do they pay you to try to discredit me?

Just kidding, see above. You and I, we are the same. We do it because it is interesting.





How is thinking that a company might be doing PR work in a hacker news tread a conspiracy theory?

It isn't, it's common sense and common practice.

That's not the conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is painting every single commenter as part of said company/PR agency.



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