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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: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @01:55AM (6 children)
I cringe at the thought of how they would have classified the initial Michael Brown Incident news reports!
Many of the early reports painted Brown as the victim, and the police officer as the aggressor.
Although intelligent people knew the initial reporting was questionable right away, it eventually became undeniable to everyone else once the store video footage of him was released, along with the rest of the grand jury findings.
It was obvious that Brown was the aggressor, and that he attacked not only the store clerk, but also the police officer. The police officer clearly acted in self defense.
Would Mozilla classify the initial reports that portrayed Brown as the "victim" as being "fake news"?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @02:14AM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:50AM (2 children)
Not flamebait, racist dog-whistle flamebait. Go home, whitey! You forgot to say "thug". (And, this is why we cannot have white supremacy, white folks just be dumb racists!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @01:01PM
The Michael Brown Incident was not about race. If he were white and the police officer who was attacked was black, it would still have been justifiable self defense on the part of the police officer. That goes for any other combination of races you can think of.
And, yes, he should have been called a "thug", based on his repeated, unjustifiably violent behavior. That label would also apply regardless of his race.
You're trying to make this into a matter of race, when race is totally irrelevant to it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @02:26PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:09AM (1 child)
Not like racists?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:56AM
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