Schengen includes Switzerland, the Council of Europe, the SIS-II system … automatic and blind execution of orders, and EU anti-SLAPP being a joke.
Long story short, ideology and freedom of expression
"Most people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed" - Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to be assimilated to Russia or China. And I have a problem with the big ones making billions from everyone's data profiling.
I don't mind the US, Canada, and others. People use TOR, TAILS, Signal, PGP, ... which are coming from there. I'm not looking for a privacy service per se (I think privacy does not exist online), more like my own political statement email. As I said, ideology
Sticky middle finger to the European continent. Though cock.li would be pushing it too far.
- free to register and use;
- not from a big corporation (think google, yahoo, etc.);
- not based in the Schengen zone;
- not based in Russia or China;
- not requiring phone verification on signup
I'm sure there are tons?