Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
by sandov on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:56PM
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The difference is that we've always known (or at least assumed) that Mozilla is anti-censorship, but can't assume it's anti-capitalist. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is oppressive, but anyway, that's a technical discussion.
They haven't stated "Mozilla is against capitalism because it's oppressive blah blah blah".
From the principles that they've declared one can infer that they would help people in totalitarian regimes (any decent organization would).
If not, then consider that Mozilla is taking a political stance in that situation too by deeming those oppressive regimes as something to be bypassed.
It is not unlikely that capitalism is oppressive to certain groups of people (poorer groups everywhere in the world), and RiseUp has a mission to help alleviate that oppression. Again, not different from what Tor has done.