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Daniel Berntsson
Personal blog · dberntsson.infopoliticswriting
Daniel Berntsson's personal blog at dberntsson.info covers politics and writing. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this personal blog of Daniel Berntsson, the Mullvad founder, as a place where he explains his views during the discussion of his donation to the Örebro Party. The comments do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Irrespective of political affiliations, I felt that Mullvad addressed the outrage in a mature and non culture war manner. Because of how they handled the situation, I have a lot more respect for the company. It's great that they didn't try to cancel the guy or get seduced into driving a wedge into their team. It is great they chose their principle over pleasing the crowd in such a transparent way. I have been a cust…
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on “Shutting down our public encrypted DNS”Submitted Immigration as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> here's also his blog https://dberntsson.info , which explains some of his views. https://web.archive.org/web/20260629185105/https://dberntsso...
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on “Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party”Submitted Why did I, a libertarian anarchist, support the Örebro Party with a donation? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm sorry to hear that. I'm not defending his choice, but consider reading Daniel's rationale in the Flamman article. There's also his blog [1], which explains some of his views. I know he doesn't share all of Örebropartiets views, but I should let him provide that nuance. As I said in another comment, speaking for myself, I don’t like that he made this donation and I know this view is shared by many of my colleague…
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on “Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party”For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party The party has been variously characterised as left-wing and right-wing, as well as populist, nationalist and conservative. Some key issues for the Örebro Party locally include strong secularism, a 30-hour workweek with retained pay, lowered wages for politicians, expanded social housing, abolishing preschool-fees, making public transport free of c…
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on “Donation Controversy”
