On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:09:05 AM UTC+4:30, Jorge Villalobos wrote: > On 5/13/13 1:50 PM, Sameer Rahmani wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Please take a look at: > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/filter/ > > > > > > The above addon helps our government to censor web and internet which is > > against the openness of web and also users rights. In Iran government > > filtered people access to many, many websites, web content and internet > > access. It's clearly against the mission of mozilla and even human rights. > > > > > > I was talking about this case with channel operators #amo-editors on > > irc.mozilla.org . They told me that it's not against mozilla policy, so i > > want to make a request to change that policy to rejects such addons or > > application form mozilla.org and its related websites. > > > > > > > > > See Also: > > > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission > > > > > > Best Regards > > > Lxsameer > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Just to expand a little bit on this, the add-on is just a reporting tool > > that people can use to submit inappropriate sites to (what looks like) > > the Iranian authorities. The add-on itself doesn't do any censorship itself. > > > > We host add-ons with similar features (reporting or filtering bad sites, > > for some definition of "bad"), but this is the first one that is > > associated to a government institution. > > > > So, technically, nothing that this add-on does is against our policies. > > While we're obviously not happy with what the add-on does, we try as > > much as possible to separate ourselves from the add-on content as much > > as possible (we only have some restrictions on adult content, gambling, > > and warez). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Jorge
Hi, It is unfortunate Mozilla does not have policies regarding this issues. Maybe you want to take a look at such pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sattar_Beheshti (Actually this page is not accessible from Iran). I believe such addons could lead to faster detection and censorship of websites. Also could lead to more arrests and in some cases could lead to death penalty which is not rare. Best Regards, Shahin _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
