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posted by martyb on Saturday August 12 2017, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-if-there-were-addons... dept.

Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox web browser and other open source projects, has announced its Mozilla Information Trust Initiative. This initiative involves Mozilla "developing products, research, and communities to battle information pollution and so-called 'fake news' online."

Although the announcement from Mozilla claims that the "spread of misinformation violates nearly every tenet of the Mozilla Manifesto", this initiative does raise some concerning questions. Should a web browser vendor be actively patrolling content on the web? Is such patrolling of content harmful to a truly open web? Is this merely the first step toward web browsers censoring or controlling the dissemination of information available on the web? Would the resources expended on this initiative be better spent improving the performance and efficiency of Firefox?


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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday August 12 2017, @02:47PM (7 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday August 12 2017, @02:47PM (#552858) Homepage Journal

    The more an organization is infected with Social Justice Warriors

    Why are you against Justice?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:04PM (#552881)

    Cause then he would have to get along with trannies, non-white people, and all sorts of "deplorables" that remind him of his "personal demons".

    • (Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:06PM

      by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:06PM (#553019) Journal

      Wait but Deplorables are all non-minority wypipo.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Saturday August 12 2017, @09:43PM (4 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday August 12 2017, @09:43PM (#552982)

    Justice != Social Justice, they are almost antonyms in fact. When you are Rewarded and punished for what you do or do not you are receiving justice, Social Justice is rewarding and punishing you based on what you based on the unchangeable things that you ARE.

    I'd like to recommend you read Dr. Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice (no link, no endorsement of one retailer over another. Pick your preferred vendor and format. And can I put in a plug here for checking your public library for a copy? K, PSA done.) It is a short read and you won't be confused anymore about these issues afterward.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @12:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @12:07PM (#553199)

      And I recommend you Dr. Adolf's Mein Kampf. It's the favorite of RWNJs everywhere.

    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:26PM (2 children)

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:26PM (#553308) Homepage Journal

      Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] gives a good explanation. Social justice is not punishing someone because of what they have no control of. Saying "social justice" is the exact opposite is like calling homosexuals "gay"; half have attempted suicide and that sure doesn't sound very happy and carefree to me.

      When you use a word like "social justice" make sure it means what you think it means.

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      • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday August 14 2017, @12:40AM (1 child)

        by jmorris (4844) on Monday August 14 2017, @12:40AM (#553408)

        The Three Laws of SJW:

        1. SJWs Always Lie

        2. SJWs Always Double Down

        3. SJWs Always Project

        Wikipedia is a totally converged institution so you are reading what the SJWs proclaim their external definition of the term to be. But they always lie so ignore what they say and look at what they do. What they do is identity politics, affirmative action, bigotry based on race, gender, national origin, religion, politics, etc. They want to reward / punish based on what you are, agreeing with them gets you some points but rapidly decreasing of late.

        And even the propaganda at Wikipedia gives a lotof hints as to the politics it is associated with. Bentham is the proto Prog Burke faced off against, Rawls is a Communist. The U.N. is a Parliament of Tyrants, mostly of the Communist bent. The Methodist Church was part of the "Social Gospel" movement which was clearly a Communist front and I don't think I'm saying anything controversial if I say the Catholic Church has fallen when they elect a Red Pope. The See Also section is a rogues gallery of bad ideas and institutions.

        • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday August 14 2017, @02:10PM

          by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday August 14 2017, @02:10PM (#553669) Homepage Journal

          Wikipedia gives the same definition as Google. And with #1, are you suggesting that out Liar in Chief is a SJW?? It looks to me that you're talking about the alt-righ, not the SJWs.

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