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The Mozilla Corporation is known for among other things the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client, and its current CEO has written an open letter to the European Commission on the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) (warning for PDF). In it she vaguely addresses transparency, accountability, online advertising, and digital markets for a European internet, without addressing The Internet itself. The DSA appears to include proposals to split off a European internet from The Internet at large and model it after the great firewall of China in regards to control and isolation.
In the document, New Developments in Digital Services: Short-(2021), medium-(2025) and long-term (2030) perspectives and the implications for theDigital Services Act, the great firewall of China gets praised repeatedly as something to emulate should the EU split of an internet from The Internet:
To make sure these predictions become reality and to prevent the misuse of digital tools, we advise the European Parliament to take a le ading stance in the global digitalisation. Three main recommendations are given in the study: A European cloud / European internet could secure a reliable, trustworthy digital ecosystem in Europe. Funding programmes for eGovernment would use the innovative capabilities of start-ups throughout Europe to create the most digital and advanced government in the world. And all this should be communicated in a visionary and exciting way, making sure the right regulations are in place, but also encouraging boldness and showing a willingness to change (see Figure 2).
[...] Action Plan 1: European Cloud / European Internet
A European firewall/cloud/ internet would foster a digital ecosystem in Europe based on data and innovation. It would drive competition and set standards, similar to what has happened in China in the past 20 years. The foundations of such a European cloud are democratic values, transparency, competition and data protection.
[...] Technologically, it would require a top-level infrastructure, high-speed 5G or a 6G data network and a firewall. Setting up such a network would promote many European companies and therefore boost business and drive innovation.
Like the Chinese firewall, this European internet would block off services that condone or support unlawful conduct from third party countries.
[...] As e-commerce and remote working solutions became widely used and even smartphone tracking to prevent infections met very little scepticism. Now in the aftermath of this pandemic it's the perfect time to act and to push for ambitious goal in digitalising Europe.
[...] Update 2 of the Visionary Communication Programme: i.e. crypto, quantum computing. Here it is important to include visionaries, think tanks and influences to communicate the update to the public.
Phase 2 of the eGovernment Venture Programme: Testing and evaluating first technologies and ideas developed in the programme.
Initialising the European internet: setting up think tanks to creating the cornerstones and possible pitfalls of such a project.
Long term 2025 – 2030
Update 3 of the Visionary Communication Programme: i.e. 6G, European internet, DNA products. Further communication within the Europe of the new digital goals.
The EFF has also responded to the EU Commission on the Digital Services Act, with a request in the opposite direction, that of putting the citizens back in control and avoiding a situation where there are gatekeepers consisting of only a handful of large corporations.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 08 2020, @11:59PM (15 children)
So, will this be the Lesser European Firewall?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @12:22AM
It's Europe, you know they're going with "Mein Feuermauer"!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:59AM (1 child)
The Berlin Firewall
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:06AM
The Reichstag Firewall
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:04AM (11 children)
Another stupid idea sprouting in Brussels.
Setting up a firewall for economic protection against successful US competition is going to result in a shitty home-grown EU ecosystem. What has Europe brought to the table in terms of "successful" Internet services recently? Wirecard? ^_^
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:26AM
Soundcloud & Spotify. You've heard of them even if you don't use them, which you won't be once the EU starts censoring them.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:29AM (8 children)
From the posting by our Euro members, it would seem that western Europe has real broadband internet just about everywhere you can go in western Europe - and the old Soviet countries aren't terribly far behind. Compare that to the US where the telcos give a little lip service to that "final mile" while stealing billions from the government.
Let us turn that same question around -
It seems to me that we rely on Asian manufacture, and, often enough, Asian design. WTF do we do for ourselves, aside from building better bombs and drones with which to force compliance with our demands?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:00AM (5 children)
To be fair, Europe has higher population density and smaller costs for the same headcount coverage, so it's not unexpected that it "has real broadband internet just about everywhere you can go in western Europe".
That's not to say the "What has the US brought to the table in terms of "successful" Internet services recently?" is not pertinent; just because its more difficult to do it, there's no reason to give up and certainly no justification for a total lack of progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Insightful) by canopic jug on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:46AM (4 children)
Not places like Sweden, Norway, and Finland. All of those do well with broadband, despite having population densities [worldpopulationreview.com] of 25/km² (191st), 15/km² (210th), and 18/km² (200th) respectively, compared to the US which has 36/km² (175th).
Now if you're looking at Romania, which has a density of 84/km² (124th), then you have different prospects. You can have broadband installed any day of the week from a selection of different companies and be up and running within 24 hours, for a low price, even if it involves cabling. Or at least that was the situation earlier. That's a big contrast to the US where there are regional monopolies and major dead zones where you can't get Internet connectivity for any price and even community broadband has been made illegal.
That's on top of several hundreds of billions of dollars spent [vice.com] completely without result [irregulators.org]. Throwing more money [techdirt.com] at the thieves instead of prosecuting them won't produce any broadband. The US has a political barrier to broadband, not a technical one nor even a problem due to population density. It appears to be that political graft is solely the hinderance. With the short range of the frequencies designated for 5G, those dead zones are going to be even larger.
So while it is certainly not a matter of population density, I agree that there is certainly no justification for the total lack of progress we have witnessed in the US the last three or so decades.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 09 2020, @08:09AM (1 child)
You won't have Internet there "just about everywhere you can go" - just "everywhere on can reasonable can think to be going".
Certainly, in the residential areas you will find it, but not in every wilderness.
I imagine there (or in UK - 275/sqkm - for the matter), one could expect at least mobile coverage in almost all places (except caves, deep valleys in nature reserves or whatnot).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday September 09 2020, @08:22AM
There are a lot of online maps showing coverage, but the maps all go by carrier rather than showing a holistic summary. Yet, they do show coverage where there are towns and villages, not just cities.
One additional point is that roaming covers whole countries. So, as an example, if you are anywhere in Norway, calling anywhere else in Norway, using a Norwegian account, then the call will be a local call. Same for Sweden and Finland. Some European providers are even starting to extend roaming coverage for adjacent countries. Progress has been slow, but at least it is actual progress.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:14PM (1 child)
> ...compared to the US which has 36/km² (175th).
US is a lot bigger than your other example countries and has some very empty places where people would still like to have good internet. See https://worldpopulationreview.com/states [worldpopulationreview.com]
At one end of the list are Montana 7/km², Wyoming 6/km² and (not part of contiguous states), Alaska 1/km².
In some cases, the US states can be compared to the Euro countries, in terms of land area.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:00PM
Yes, and the US has spent over $400 billion USD on broadband so far, with nothing to show for it. The population, via the politicians, could hold the corporations which received that money responsible but hasn't. In contrast, what would the European countries' Internet situation look like if there had been an additional $400 billion USD ( ~ 337 billion € ) invested in it? It's not the lack of money. It's the lack of will combined with the grifting holding things back there.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:02AM
As to the Asian manufacturing part, and the European situation.
What is the economical sense of outsourcing manufacturing more than 8,000+ kilometers (4,900 miles) from your destination market, while facing massive unemployment on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, only between 14 and 500 km (310 miles) away?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:28PM
Starlink comes to mind, even if it's not really up yet. Whether it's a good idea of not isn't yet clear, but it's certainly intended as an implementation of the Internet. And will be affected by moves such as this. (Though actually, my guess is that it's not really intended for use inside cities anyway.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:21AM
If US corps would stop harvesting their consumers, maybe there wouldn't need to be an European firewall?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @12:13AM (3 children)
Is there a similar proposal to emulate Chinese concentration camps? [theverge.com]
Powered by the First Universal Cybernetic Kynetic Ultramicro-Programmer?
Is "digitalising" like digitizing or the act of EU citizens flipping them the bird? And the EU isn't Europe, they can't even get that right.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday September 09 2020, @12:19AM (2 children)
Disney says it's OK [theguardian.com]. Those camps are purely vocational.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Wednesday September 09 2020, @12:56AM (1 child)
Mercenary training? [uighur.nl] Or is China's Gitmo just bigger than ours?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:53AM
Gets my vote.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @12:30AM (12 children)
I guess if my first name were Winifred I would drop it too.
Mozilla is dying. It's lost its credibility, and its relevance. In other words, it's following in the path of RMS, who has pretty much faded from sight.
At least Stallman has removed the personal ad on Stallman.org where he perpetually begged for a free room to "help support his ideals" or whatever. After the fiasco on the SAIL mailing list, good to see him gone from public view.
Only a matter of time before Winnie and Mozilla so the same.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:13AM (5 children)
When tranny gay-boy Hudson starts making fun of people's names.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:58AM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:26AM (3 children)
It's really social media, mostly for old techies who still think that most people use "real computers" instead of those "stupid millennials" on their phones, are still pining for the year of Linux on the desktop, refuse to admit that the major open source projects have been co-opted by big business (see Debian and systemd as an example), and still disdain "good enough computing" because ever-higher spec hardware makes them semi-hard.
Look at the discussions with the most comments - they all devolve into politics and often a good dose of misogyny.
As for the poster, 14 years ago I wrote a series on transsexuality. I never thought I'd have to write something about basic genetic truths about sex, but I guess I'll have to. I'm sure that will also degrade into a shitfest.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:36PM (2 children)
Is that series on transsexuality still available? it's possible that I'd like to read it.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:37PM (1 child)
Or is it obsolete now?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:51PM
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:27PM (5 children)
Just because RMS isn't in the public spotlight doesn't mean he isn't right. Dude was prophetic about a lot of things that have come to pass.
Maybe he isn't the most pleasant or photogenic guy, but that often has little to do with the accuracy of what you profess.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1, Disagree) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @04:16PM (4 children)
He was proven wrong. Open source doesn't have a proper financial model to assure continuous and consistent development and support. And let's face it -- nobody is getting any younger. The people who did the initial development surge are mostly dead or retired. There's no institution to provide institutional knowledge to those who might have been tempted to contribute because there's no corporate body to ensure that thing that need to get done (like bug fixes) get priority. Everyone wants to scratch their own itch - like adding another feature - than in maintaining the plumbing.
Look what happened to Perl6. Or The Shitshiw Formerly Known As Firefox. Or systemd. Or all the package managers that aren't even compatible in the same distro. Or the lack of proper screen readers - they once "sort of worked" but not any more. The population that can benefit from a screen reader on the desktop is bigger than all the users of Linux on the desktop worldwide. So the choices are Microsoft or Apple.
And the fault lies with the GPL. FreeBSD is the #2 desktop OS (Apple) because it is possible to make enough money to sustain developers.
In 2000 there were 1,000 Linux distros, all offering pretty much the same software. In 2020 there are twice as many distr, all offering the same basic selection of increasingly dated software. In 2040? There probably won't be any Linux distros because the world will have changed and Linux will be a corporate-sponsored monolith with no use by individuals.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 09 2020, @06:17PM (3 children)
Did he claim it did? He wasn't pushing open source because it was profitable, but because in his estimation, it was the ethical way to do software development.
Not really familiar with this one
I think that had more to do with them running off the end of the road after reaching feature completeness, than an inherent failure of open source philosophy. Although I guess the ability of OSS projects to get taken over by SJWs is a problem.
Systemd, the blatant ignoring of The Unix Way? The thing that Red Hat twisted everybody's arm into using? It may be from an open source company, but it doesn't play by open source rules.
BSD is the "#2 desktop OS" because it's easier to appropriate people's work and then lock it behind your own license, so of course for-profit companies are going to like it better. Am I supposed to be surprised? BSD License is for the benefit of the developer; the GPL is for the benefit of the end user (the assumption is that most of the time they're a programmer as well, but still).
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:02PM
i don't think the tranny is really that dumb to not understand it's disingenuous analysis of FOSS. There's no point arguing with a liar.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:14PM (1 child)
How is dead software in any way to the benefit of the end user? And RMS proposed several financial models, all of which were laughable. In theory there should not be a browser monopoly if RMS was right. He obviously was wrong.
Also, RMS was and is hugely ethically challenged. He called one of his buddy Epstein's victims a liar, a knee jerk response to anything that threatened Epsteins financial contributions to certain media projects at MIT.
He also is totally wrong with his refusal to accept people's self identity [stallman.org]
Check out his idea of "respecting a persons gender identity by NOT using their preferred pronouns
Using the non-gender madeup "pers" instead of using a trans persons preferred pronouns is totally disrespectful.
His misogyny is well documented.
I will say the same thing about him when he dies that he said about Steve Jobs
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 15 2020, @03:53PM
Plenty of people are idiots outside of their field of expertise. I don't go to RMS if I want to talk about identity issues, the same as any other "hard" scientist.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Wednesday September 09 2020, @12:51AM (9 children)
This sort of thinking can lead to things like deliberately creating your own digital dystopia, and passing laws requiring your residents to live there or do without.
I and others can see already that this is a bad idea. No one should have to point this out, but since we're on the topic, for those contemplating any such thing: This Is A Bad Idea. Don't Do These Things.
Just because we can doesn't mean that we should.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:51AM (8 children)
A "great wall" can be either good or bad, depending on how it's used, same as everything else in life.
A "great wall" that blocks all traffic from North Korea, Mumbai , etc would save old people a couple billion bucks a year in scams. Ditto Nigeria and catfishes and Nigerian princes.
Ditto Russia.
Throw in blocking telephone calls from India claiming to be from the tax department. And the ones in Mandarin looking to scam immigrants by telling them there's an arrest warrant out for them.
You don't even have to block it - just erect a toll so that scams become unprofitable, and that businesses that hide behind a fake web presence pretending to be in-country can't fake it any more.
A walled garden can keep the vermin out. They want in, let them pay the toll charges. Even a few pennies per email would stop the tax scams.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:01AM (3 children)
Could we also totally block out the USA? And maybe Canada and Australia, too? Lots of companies and people make monies providing services to international scammers.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:13AM (2 children)
How about this - totally free nationwide internet access, subsidized by tolls on international traffic entering the country?
This would help kickstart local tech to replace multinationals, help kill of cheap outsourcing, and make internet scams outside the country unprofitable, while making it easier to track down local scammers.
After all, the guilty countries (hello, Indian tax scammers) don't have an incentive to stop scammers because it creates jobs locally.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 09 2020, @06:41AM (1 child)
I'm just thrilled with that idea. I'll be reduced to reading news published by US MSM - which amounts to less than half the news, heavily slanted to support one party view or the other. Thrilled I am!
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:24PM
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:23PM (3 children)
The thing about freedom is, as soon as you start qualifying "well actually, everything is free *except for these things,*" then you have a million people clamoring for you to add more exceptions.
Spam calls, hacking, etc. is the price we pay for a free Internet, and I gladly pay that price. The alternative is the slippery slope that Ajit Pai and other crapweasels are trying to push us down.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @04:23PM (2 children)
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 09 2020, @06:31PM (1 child)
The difference being, the former category requires you as the victim to consent to be victimized. The consumer unknowingly buying unsafe food or cars endangers them through no fault of their own.
also protect people who haven't consented to participate in Mad Max
also impacts people who aren't party to it
None of them, because they're all stupid examples.
I didn't say a Great Firewall *couldn't* be beneficial, but it's just not worth the risk. It's a system ripe for abuse, and if we've learned nothing else over all these thousands of years, people should know that those in positions of petty power like to exercise it. Go talk to your friend Ajit Pai about how awesome it is to fuck over people's Internet if you like the idea so much.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @10:43PM
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(Score: 2) by Zinnia Zirconium on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:40AM (8 children)
Neat!
I know many things about getting through firewalls but I was unmotivated to learn until capitalist pigs took my unlimited internet away. Through struggle I grow. I rarely ever think of encumbered internet as encumbered anymore since I am so accustomed to bypassing restrictions.
I spent some time today reconfiguring one of my proxy servers that gets me free internet but I recognize that the work I did was ultimately unproductive because I was writing workarounds for arbitrary restrictions imposed by other people. If those other people would stop imposing arbitrary restrictions then we would all be free to do actual productive work instead. But no. We play the capitalist pig game instead.
Free internet wants to be free like free as in air. Just give it away already. It makes no difference to me. No way am I paying for internet access.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:59AM (6 children)
The Internet does not "want to be free." It wants nothing. And it's most certainly not "free as in air." The whole Internet costs money to build and to run. It has no feelings, no wants, no desires. Same as information. Same as software. All these have one thing in common - they have no feelings or desires, and your slogan is just an attempt to bypass the rational thought process.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:04AM (1 child)
> just an attempt to bypass the rational thought process.
An effort free attempt where you are concerned.
Thanks to your meanness, I'm going to lobby the EU on behalf of by Zinnia Zirconium. They should whitelist HTTP/0.9 connections so that php -S still functions.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:06AM
Meanness for telling the truth? Slogans are designed to bypass rational thought. In this case, it was also patently false. What a whining baby!
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(Score: 2) by Zinnia Zirconium on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:56AM (1 child)
There should be a generally accepted expectation of free internet access. It could be advertising supported or tax supported or whatever but internet access should be free of cost.
Back when broadcast TV was relevant nobody expected to pay for advertising supported broadcast TV. TV was free.
Today nobody expects to pay for music. Music costs money to make but musicians still make music even when access to music is free of cost.
Through technical trickery and legal loopholes I can get free internet and free movies and free TV.
Now if only I could get free food for life [soranews24.com] that would be sweet.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:10AM
Thank you, but personally, I don't like it the way you describe.
I'm think I'm better with an Internet with no traffic/destination restrictions, even if I need to pay for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday September 09 2020, @01:41PM
Sorry, but the internet is different from software. Software, in principle, requires no maintenance. (Yeah, that's different from software in practice...usually.) An example of what I mean are most compilers. You only need to change them to adapt to changes in the language specs. If you're willing to use the old version of the language, you rarely need to do anything to maintain the compiler. The same for most static html pages. Make them dynamic, though, and you're using tools that aren't designed to be maintenance free. But the spec keeps changing, and newer html rendering engines eventually stop working with older code. So "in principle" isn't "in parctice", but "in principle" code that's been debugged doesn't need maintenance.
The internet is very different. It doesn't just have the "passion for updates" induced need for maintenance, it's got the "machines wear out" need for maintenance. So it really *can't* be free. But it's also true that in the US the system has been designed to allow monopoly pricing. It didn't need to happen that way, but bribery, corruption, and politics ensured that it did.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:42PM
The guard posts may be facing the other way, but the asshats on both sides really haven't changed that much.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 09 2020, @03:18PM
See, there's a reason RMS or whoever coined the terms "free as in beer/free as in freedom"--for most of your post it sounded like you were talking about free as in freedom, now in your last line you abruptly switch to "I don't want to pay my ISP."
So, which one is your personal term "free as in air" supposed to be?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Wednesday September 09 2020, @09:28AM
and taking it away from parliament was always a hidden power grab very few people in the EU understood. When stuff like this pops up now you know how its going to end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @06:40PM
What else was to expect after the ex-"free world" let its politicians ignore freedom? Money does not stink.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:08PM
This is what's happening with a many projects, foundations, companies. Straight from the communist brainwashing centers known as "schools" they enter these orgs and destroy them for their Bolshevik Jew masters and their race traitor Goi partners in crime.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:35PM (2 children)
I thought the summary looked fishy, seeming to imply that Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker (she has a name) was being quoted in the block. She is not. The block quote in the summary comes from "Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies; Directorate-General for Internal Policies; Authors: Nick SOHNEMANN, Lasse Michael UFFRECHT, Marie Constanze HARTKOPF, Jette Paulina KRUSE, Lena Marie de NOELLEN; PE 648.784 - May 2020".
Which is not to absolve Baker for the statement she did make, which in its vagueness seems to support the idea and motivation of DSA while refusing to discuss specifics. But this comment section seems to be taking this summary to mean that she and Mozilla are EU lapdogs whole-heartedly supporting and promoting a "great firewall". This simply is not true.
Note to editors: in the future, please ensure that the title of the article (i.e. "Mozilla and the EFF on the Pending EU Digital Services Act") matches the most prominent block quote in the summary. The title suggests the summary is about "Mozilla and the EFF" reacting to the DSA, but most of the space is given to a completely unrelated document. I only hope this misleading construction was simply a mistake and not attempt by the original submitter (canopic jug) to deliberately malign Mozilla.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Thursday September 10 2020, @10:59AM (1 child)
It was a mistake, and the confusion is still not obvious to me. However. I should have nonetheless split off a separate paragraph there to make it more clear where the blockquote was from.
You can submit articles too though.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:51PM
I submitted a few articles. One of them got to the front page, but only after an editor had mutilated my summary until it was even more misleading than this one. I won't say my original submission had no problems, but I tried really hard to make sure the summary still told a cohesive story. Apparently the summary effectively standing alone isn't a desirable trait to our editors.
Suffice to say I'm not interested in repeating that experience.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:49PM
Have you seen what they did to mobile Firefox last week? Completely redesigned interface that bears almost no resemblance to the old one. Did they think we WANT a new learning curve? And it's not a geezer thing, my 36 year old daughter called me complaining about it. If I wanted a completely different browser I would have deleted Firefox and installed one.
What's even worse is that it's twice as slow and takes ten times as many taps to do what two or three did before. Incredibly bad design.
I'm all for hiring the handicapped, but hiring someone with an IQ of sixty to code is about as smart as hiring Stevie Wonder as a bus driver. Is Mozilla hiring the old Microsoft employees?
Firefox is no longer my go-to browser on the tablet. Glad they didn't fuck up the PC version like that.
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