To: Paul Conant
As you can see, I have received an email alert via ProtonMail from the most feared free speaker on the internet, Alex Jones. I quite enjoyed Jones' associate, Paul Joseph Watson, in his witty rant about the legacy media's fear of memes.
As for Gmail, I have received none of the alerts from Jones for which I signed up. Google's high-handed blockade on my communications, based on the political views of its top brass, is highly offensive. I certainly encourage people to switch to ProtonMail, which does not and cannot read email content, nor censor it for any reason.
Proton can discern various things about this Jones email, such as that it is from a listserv and that it contains remote content. Hence there is a slim possibility that enough clues of that sort might tip off an eavesdropper as to the email's source. But, really, I doubt very much whether the CERN scientists who set up Proton are very worried about Jones' gabfests or about Watson's jabs in the battle of the memes.
That may make certain writers at The New York Times very upset. I have noticed that the Times runs stories trying to shame platforms that don't muzzle people they oppose. But it isn't likely that the Geneva-based Proton will shrivel up in fear before Times hatchet persons. As Jill Abramson, the paper's former top editor, documents in her book, Merchants of Truth, the Times has had a very hard time staying relevant.
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