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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, @05:13PM (1 child)
Lol, you call my post hateful? You're a moron, there is a real insult. Since you're such a conservative blow hard all the time I presume you're reacting as if I would only censor conservatives. Not true at all, there are plenty of hateful bigoted liberals who have zero clue they are what they hate, and those would get filtered out just the same.
As for posting AC, gimme a break. I switched to AC so I could get a better clue about what my comments are actually worth. No username politics, no assumed agenda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @12:11PM
Not having a name tag confuses authoritarians, they don't know whether you're a friend or a foe. To them the author is the message.
http://theauthoritarians.org/ [theauthoritarians.org]