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Mozilla and Google Block Dissenter Browser Extension

posted by martyb on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:36PM   
from the let's-talk-about-it dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Packt reports that Gab's Dissenter browser extension was removed from Mozilla's Firefox add-ons on April 10th (people already using it can continue to do so), and was booted from Google's Chrome browser the next day. Gab pitches itself as an anti-censorship social media platform that only prohibits speech that is illegal. Their Dissenter browser extension and associated website allow people to share comments about any webpage, giving users the ability to share comments on articles, videos, etc., regardless of whether or not the website hosting the content has a comments section. Mozilla's rationale for the ban was that Dissenter was being used to promote violence, hate speech, and discrimination, but they failed to show any examples to bolster that claim. Gab plans to develop their own browser in response.

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• Re:Collusion (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @09:26PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @09:26PM (#829117)

  Collusion was an obscure and little used word a few years ago but now it is a big thing.

  It's not collusion, it's activist pressure groups like the now disgraced SPLC [onenewsnow.com] and the Soros funded Media Matters. [foxnews.com] The true meaning of "woke" will be when companies can no longer deny these activist groups are hypocritical, sociopathic grifters.

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