Proton AG lost me as a customer the minute they backdoored a binding arbitration clause into their TOS last year.

The difficulty of proving damages in breach of privacy cases combined with generally weak privacy legislation globally means the threat of a class action often serves as one of the only practical deterrents to abuses of power by corporations controlling sensitive personal information. By changing its terms of service, Proton essentially immunized itself from suffering any significant penalty in the event its negligence leads to a mass breach of privacy of its users.

Tactics like the use of binding arbitration clauses are hallmarks of inherently untrustworthy corporations.

Fairy Creek also received surprisingly little MSM media coverage despite being reportedly Canada’s largest civil disobedience campaign in almost 20 years.

While it could be argued that this under-reporting could be attributed to the RCMP’s heavy handed treatment of journalists at the site, it doesn’t appear that any of the country’s well funded MSM joined the court challenge to the RCMP’s restricting of media access.