I did my research. It's not non sense, it looks sus as fuck.

No one knows/recommends/uses Riseup VPN. Their logo looks like something a child would draw. Their website is ridiculous, amateurish and outdated. The 'System Updates' on their frontpage hasn't been updated in 2 years. Their 'About us' page has a team members with descriptions such as "(...)she doesn’t hesitate to use her abilities and radical spirit to fight rich people, men, meat eaters, fascists, monogamy(...)".

I would NEVER turn off my VPN to use that shit.

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Headquarters on USA. Logo with Antifa colors and LGBTQ rainbow color. Team members with radical leftist views. 🚩

If my memory doesn’t trick me, riseup as an organization (not just some members ) did advocate for a communist revolution in south america.

I think they have been around for years and something do with the VPN from Calyx.

Maybe they have been been around before you came in this world. It is the same organization if you ever used Tails OS.

https://tails.net/donate/index.en.html

checking trustability of a service by their website style & LOGO is ludicrous. even more — to hear same guy criticizing "woke people excluding someone from the team just because they were racists" now saying "riseup is a bad VPN 'cause one of their team members is an antifascist".

now, that doesn't mean that fighting the *men* is good (taking into account all the discrimination of men — read more on https://masculism.site/ — adversal feminist activism ain't helping), as well as one forcing you to use some exact one-and-only VPN to access one's service, as well as not letting you use the service with VPN overall. I agree w/ you about that.

RiseUp's projects have included the Stop Watching Us campaign against global surveillance disclosures revealed by Edward Snowden, fighting the NSA surveillance: https://www.vice.com/de/article/crowdfunding-kampagne-fuer-abhoersichere-email-und-chat-kommunikation/

On the other hand, one of the reasons not to use RiseUp is that their canary no longer states the absence of gag orders: https://www.zdnet.com/article/encrypted-email-provider-riseup-misses-warrant-canary-deadline/