The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

Posted by Risse 15 hours ago

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party(det.social)

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ndegruchy 3 days ago|

Disappointing if true. I can't read the original article[1], but the translation seems to agree. I've paid for Mullvad for _years_. Looks like I'll be taking my money elsewhere.

[1]: https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropa...

fsmedberg 3 days ago||

Article by a news media outlet that is considered very far left (communist). Try finding the same claim or description in any national Swedish media. You won't.

XorNot 3 days ago||

I have Mullvad to avoid age check gateways, not super anonymity. I'll absolutely be taking my business elsewhere.

Gud 2 days ago||

Because of hyperbolic headlines?

rdos 15 hours ago||

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tomhow 11 hours ago||

OK, but please don't post low-substance comments on HN. Telling us you “don't care” about a topic achieves nothing other than instigating a generic tangent, which is against the guidelines. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them if you want to participate here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

krapp 15 hours ago||

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yde_java 15 hours ago||

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krapp 15 hours ago||

I didn't claim anything of the sort. And OP literally said "It might be ignorant, but I don't care," so...

DrProtic 14 hours ago||

They don’t care that the CEO is right wing, not that they’re ignorant.

_blk 4 hours ago||

But that Bill Gates [Foundation] is a larger sponsor to WHO than all nations short of the US (at least prior to the currently elected govt) wouldn't dare making the news this far left into the interwebs... Just sayin' - figured I'd invest a few karma points into self reflection ;) love y'all

gigatexal 15 hours ago||

I used Mullvad before this because they passed a bunch of tests and legally denied claims to user data. I don’t have the reference but it was on HN.

So who do people recommend now?

andrewinardeer 13 hours ago|

Proton

easytiger 15 hours ago||

Far right? It's run by a literal marxist communist.

rightbyte 6 hours ago||

People change. Mossulini was a socialist in his youth.

microgpt 13 hours ago||

What does he or she want to do with immigrants?

easytiger 9 hours ago||

Lol. Not all communists are Marxists on immigration

microgpt 9 hours ago||

What did Marx write about immigration?

mhitza 3 days ago||

Any of the Swedes in here can corroborate the claims in the article about this right wing group? Especially about the extreme anti-immigration statements and put that in full translation and context?

Also what this group leader has done in Örebro to contextualize this quote

> ”I hope they will do similar things on the national level as in Örebro”, writes Daniel Berntsson to Flamman.

ninjin 3 days ago||

Tried to find something from the party itself, but found nothing on their homepage other than that they plan to publish a party programme "gradually, starting some time during the summer of 2026".

https://www.orebropartiet.se/var-politik/

fsmedberg 3 days ago||

The claims in the social media post is pure bullshit. The party is a tiny (read: one person elected) radical populist left-economic-leaning nationalists. They have gained popularity for pointing out wasteful use of Örebro's municipalities resources, and their leader's fondness of lengthy ridiculing other parties politicians in lengthy debates, that he often publish on Instagram and YouTube.

Pazzaz 3 days ago|||

> read: one person elected

No, they have 8 people elected: 3 in the region, 5 in the municipality.

They got 4,46 % of the votes in the region, and 7,92 % in the municipality. And who knows, maybe they'll use that 5 million SEK to get more seats in this years election.

mhitza 3 days ago|||

Thank you for providing context.

Are his public stances on immigration precisely stated as remigration, or does he describe a thing such as remigration without explicitly naming it as such?

About his quote from wikipedia "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish." which links to this video tweet https://x.com/AllardKlipp/status/2060109271635771457 can you give full context/translation?

yaris 3 days ago||

He says what is quoted when talking about criminals with immigrant roots. "Those [criminals] - they should get out, even if they were born in Sweden, because they do not have a connection to Sweden. They received a swedish passport but they have not become swedish [as belonging to swedish culture]. They are not interested [in becoming swedish] and here I'm ready to go on corpses...". Overall his stance on immigration (taken from this video) is not as extreme as one can imagine reading HN comments. It is extreme but not to the extent that he's ready to push out anyone whos granddad was not Andersson.

yw3410 4 hours ago|||

This is an extremely far right stance. It's essentially advocating systemic discrimination against ethnic minorities.

Ask yourself the following questions.

1. Who decides whether you don't belong into Swedish culture?

2. Do the requirements change?

3. How many generations removed before your rights aren't conditional?

nargek 3 days ago|||

It is an extreme point of view, it's just that far right is booming everywhere.

honeybadger1 8 hours ago||

Sigh, people that bring politics to the forefront with everything are so miserable.

PunchyHamster 15 hours ago|

> The Örebro Party (Swedish: Örebropartiet, ÖP) is a political party in Sweden. The party was initially only a local party in Örebro, Sweden. Markus Allard is the party leader. According to Allard the party cannot be placed anywhere on the traditional left-right spectrum. Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care.[3][4]

I see no problems

raffael_de 7 hours ago|

me neither ... Mullvad is fantastic.

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