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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @08:42PM (1 child)
It is strange to see crazies like yourself actually believe your opinions reflect the majority. Keep that head in the sand jmo!! Not to mention the conservative agenda is way more guilty of your accusations, but being a partisan hack you can't see/admit that.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday August 12 2017, @09:33PM
Reading is fundamental.
I wrote a post explicitly denouncing running things based on the opinions of the majority. Denouncing the concept of Democracy itself in no uncertain terms. Wow. Just wow.
And if you read my posting history you will know my equal disdain for Conservatism. It can't win because winning is explicitly forbidden by Conservative doctrine. Read Kirk's The Conservative Mind and it is laid bare, from Burke to Reagan, Conservative thought holds that having a goal is not Conservative, only reacting against Progressivism to retard its march is proper. The Alt-Right is the only Right that fights. It is the only Right that can win because it is the only one that WANTS to win, the only one that is even trying to define a goal to fight FOR.