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: 2) by jmorris on Monday August 14 2017, @12:40AM (1 child)
The Three Laws of SJW:
1. SJWs Always Lie
2. SJWs Always Double Down
3. SJWs Always Project
Wikipedia is a totally converged institution so you are reading what the SJWs proclaim their external definition of the term to be. But they always lie so ignore what they say and look at what they do. What they do is identity politics, affirmative action, bigotry based on race, gender, national origin, religion, politics, etc. They want to reward / punish based on what you are, agreeing with them gets you some points but rapidly decreasing of late.
And even the propaganda at Wikipedia gives a lotof hints as to the politics it is associated with. Bentham is the proto Prog Burke faced off against, Rawls is a Communist. The U.N. is a Parliament of Tyrants, mostly of the Communist bent. The Methodist Church was part of the "Social Gospel" movement which was clearly a Communist front and I don't think I'm saying anything controversial if I say the Catholic Church has fallen when they elect a Red Pope. The See Also section is a rogues gallery of bad ideas and institutions.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday August 14 2017, @02:10PM
Wikipedia gives the same definition as Google. And with #1, are you suggesting that out Liar in Chief is a SJW?? It looks to me that you're talking about the alt-righ, not the SJWs.
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