This is Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, and Samuele Kaplun, CTO of Proton VPN. Our mission is to make privacy and internet freedom a reality for everyone.
Recently, the New York Times did an in-depth story about our fight for Russia’s Internet by developing [our Stealth protocol](https://protonvpn.com/blog/stealth-vpn-protocol/) an advanced technology that bypasses many forms of government censorship.
The fight, however, for the internet happens all over the world in places like [China](https://protonvpn.com/blog/great-firewalll-china/), Hong Kong, Iran, and beyond.
Our VPN team is in a continuous cat-and-mouse game, going up against governments with billions of dollars behind them that fund censorship technology. We hope it will have a happy ending, but it’s not guaranteed. These countries block us, we fight back and win, then they block us again.
We keep going because access to the internet is a fundamental human right and it's crucial to preserving freedom online. If organizations and privacy-first companies like Proton don’t fight for it, then maybe nobody else will.
Here’s our proof: https://imgur.com/a/2npJcTD
AMA.
EDIT: Thanks everybody who participated, it was really a pleasure to speak with all of you, but as it is past midnight in Geneva now, we will be signing off. However, you can join our subreddits on r/ProtonVPN, r/ProtonMail, and r/ProtonDrive. !lock