Nothing is stopping concerned citizens from downloading the addon and reporting government sites and sites that censor as inappropriate.
If there was an addon to report hate crimes, it would be part of the mission, and we would embrace it. We cannot know what everyone is doing with the data they gather in addons. Amazon.com and Facebook addons are used to gather information and used to spam people with ads and e-mails. Should we disallow those too? Where do we draw the line? What happens when someone puts out a vague addon, or something insidious (for example, an addon used to "report pro-LGBT organizations to help make a list of allies" but then that really feeds into a list of people to prosecute in countries that prosecute those kinds of organizations)? To be clear, I believe we don't allow gambling or adult addons not because Mozilla is against these things, but because they fall into a very tricky spot legally - Mozilla's mission for an "open web" doesn't say "an open web except for adult content and gambling". But adult content and gambling over the internet are tricky to manage from a legal perspective (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling), and warez are harmful, so my *GUESS* is that this is why we don't allow those addons. (that's a 100% guess, I'm not a lawyer, nor a member of the legal team, but I have worked for websites with adult content before) Obviously we care about human rights issues, but there's only so much we can police, and it would be awful if we made a mistake and rejected an addon that we *thought* was "bad" but is really "good", and accepted an addon that *looked* "good" but in reality was "bad". -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sameer Rahmani" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:47:16 AM Subject: Re: Request: Change mozilla policy about addons which are against web openness and users rights There is a huge difference between gambling or adult addons and this one. Gambling or adult content is not against web OPENNESS, but this addon is really a big violence of OPENNESS. I know that users may install this from another location, and i don't care. but i do not expect Mozilla to host such addon which question the web OPENNESS. I really want Mozilla to reconsider its policy about such addons which are AGAINST the WEB OPENNESS and encourage censorship and filtering _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
