On 5/14/2013 3:44 PM, Justin Dolske wrote:
But if it's being used to feed into a list that unconditionally blocks
users in Iran from being able to access reported sites (ie, without
any user consent or opt-in), I think that's a significant issue that
_does_ run directly afoul of Mozilla's principles and goals -- even if
the add-on itself is ok from a technology/code perspective.
I'm not terribly familiar with internet censorship in Iran (but a
brief skim of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran
indicates it's a thing). But the same reasoning would apply to an
add-on designed to feed new entries into China's "Great Firewall". If
a country wants to filter their internet, I don't think we need to
play even a passive role in making it easier to install their
reporting software.
Which of Mozilla's principles or positions do you think this harms? As
far as I know, the Mozilla project has never stated that government
internet censorship is inherently a bad thing.
Most of the project lives in Western democracies and we assume a shared
context that government censorship is a bad thing. But I don't think
it's necessarily our role to try and impose that idea of openness onto
countries which don't currently share that context.
--BDS
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