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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by onevu on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:36PM (#20758879)
If I choose to install a certificate that is controlled by the government, yes, I definitely do want to give them access.
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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by ceejayoz on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:44PM (#20758953)
> credible reports that internet service providers in Kazakhstan have required people in the country to download and install a government-issued certificate on all devices and in every browser in order to access the internet

Hardly sounds like a choice.

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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by lone_haxx0r on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:14PM (#20759844)
Maybe for some it was a choice. Anyway, it's not the web browser's business.

If my anyone is coercing me to do something, it's a problem between that person and me. I don't want Mozilla lecturing me on politics, I just want to use the browser.

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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by ceejayoz on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:44PM (#20760230)
Mozilla can't make their own choices?

No one's coercing you into using their browser.

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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by onevu on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:56PM (#20760363)
Sure, and we should be able to criticise their choices... Especially since they pride themselves on giving the user choice, freedom, bla bla bla.
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Re:Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan by vbezhenar on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:26PM (#20760690)
This is lies. They did not require people to install anything. They MITMed only mobile internet. They MITMed only one city. On this city only few domains were MITMed. Only a fraction of connections to those domains were MITMed. So in practice I think that most people did not even notice anything. And those who noticed could just press F5 few times. Or use VPN as many people do anyway.
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