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Mozilla and Google Block Dissenter Browser Extension

posted by martyb on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:36PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:26AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:26AM (#829234)

    Why didn't they release their awesome new enterprise with a different name and no association with Gab?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:46AM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:46AM (#829265) Journal

    Because generations of inbreeding are not conducive to either good opsec or sound decision-making skills? =P

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:55PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:55PM (#829511)

      Wait, I thought Gab was alt-right. Are you saying they are Muslims or have the inbreeding problem too?

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @06:09AM (2 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 15 2019, @06:09AM (#829694) Journal

        I notice a lot of violent, destructive, clannish people with ground-in authoritarian mindsets have an inbreeding problem. Kind of a chicken and egg issue, isn't it? If the rooster that fucked the hen was the same one that impregnated the hen that laid the egg that held the hen the rooster is fucking now. ...shit, that's confusing.

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        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @12:00PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @12:00PM (#829766)

          Just this:
          https://uproxx.com/news/nazi-group-incest-scandal-traditional-workers-party-explained/ [uproxx.com]

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @06:26PM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 15 2019, @06:26PM (#829966) Journal

            Aaaaahahaha, yessss, that's the one! :D This is all I will ever think of any time someone mentions groups like the Proud Boys or the TWP or any of the other sad-sack white supremacist mobs out there.

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