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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by hagbard_c on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:14PM (#43344778)
Currently Firefox does not do any of those things out of the .deb/.tar.gz. I'd like to keep it that way, hence my resistance against involvement by parties which have shown to be either susceptible to or directly calling for censorship. This is also one of the many reasons why I wanted to see Mitchell Baker disappear from the organisation as she clearly was calling for active censorship.

I frankly do not understand all the resistance against a call for a politically neutral tech infrastructure. To all those people frantically pressing that down-vote button, do you really desire for your tech infrastructure to be ideologically driven? Do you even understand what such a thing means and what it will lead to?

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by t43562 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:27PM (#43345582)
Governments are not necessarily all about politics - the electricity system isn't and the road network isn't.

Private organisations that have great power over important bits of the internet are also not necessarily politically neutral and there is no level to control them.

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by cruffle_duffle on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:37PM (#43350172)
In California they were shutting the water off from houses where people had parties during lockdowns. Governments absolutely will abuse their powers and should never be trusted.
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