It’s crazy how far down one has to go for the right answer. MLs are by definiton highly authoritarian.

It’s like asking why successful fascist always creat dictatorships… Like that’s their plan.

Common thing said but pretty stupid. Most scientific discoveries are grounded in figuring out anecdotal phenomenon. This is even more true for social sciences

Aesthetics here are chef’s kiss

If he was using their VPN, they wouldn’t have been able to turn that over according to their own site: https://protonvpn.com/features/no-logs-policy#:~:text=No-logs VPN,lengths%2C or location.