This is not some end state of success, but a process. It's people sharing their ideas, thoughts, and strategies on how to accomplish a relatively challenging economic shift.
What you are witnessing and commenting on is quite literally the messy business of a market organically evolving and developing. "Not American" is now a selling point for services.
I see it as an effort to divest themselves of moral inequity.
And the result isn't the point: the effort and the reason for the effort, is.
This is the first iteration/calibration of a more conscientious intention.
When moral imperative is an unidentifiable road feature on the highway towards wherever the US is going...small efforts matter
The usage of the term 'virtue signaling' is almost always a sign that the person saying it isn't being intellectually honest - it's usually just meant to be a putdown.
You are showing us who you are and what you believe, but you are not describing the parent commenter.
Virtue signaling takes place wherever changes in group behavior are required by changes in conditions but calling it just virtue signaling is reductive. People are moving off of US services because of the behavior of the US government and US citizens.
> Proton AG is a Swiss technology company offering privacy-focused online services and software. It is majority owned by the non-profit Proton Foundation.
So how is the US "controlling" Proton, can you enlighten us as you seem to be more knowledgeable about this?
If I was a citizen of a nation directly and recently threatened by the U.S I would consider it more as a "screw you" than virtue signaling.
This is probably because I am not especially caring about virtue, but I do like pointing out ways that alternate explanations for things some people might find virtuous could pertain.