Re:The internet deserves a better answer to social
by lloydatkinson on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:47AM
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It started when they fired pretty much their entire Servo team and then a lot of their MDN staff, and then gave their CEO a pay rise. I think the last useful thing they made was their file sharing web app, which they also dropped.
Moreover, the Fakespot acquisition and building a social platform (with an explicit political position) jeopardizes their position as a neutral browser vendor. Because a lot of people and resources in the organization would now be devoted towards content moderation, it would be easy for an extremist political group (which could either be left or right leaning) to force Mozilla to bake in censorship in their browser, by way of litigation or otherwise, as they already have the technology to do it elsewhere.