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Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)

submitted 4 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I suspect this was a "do it or we'll categorize Mozilla products as malicious software" situations. But some transparency from Mozilla would be nice.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They should tell Russia to eat a dick. Remember when Google did that to China? I thought it was very cool of them

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, the time when they seemed cool is long gone

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let them. If everyone refuses to comply the authoritarian control of the Russian government over its people will crumble a little.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If everyone

I think, that's the problem...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well at the very least they could of just said no. I don't think they have a Russian office and if they did they probably should get out of Russia

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would expect Russia to just ban downloads of Firefox, if they said no. Like, why would Russia not do that? Chrome, Edge, Safari etc. will presumably bend over backwards quite readily. As in, it would be a disservice to the Russian people to get Firefox banned over this.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

The Russian government is a disservice to the Russian people. However, I do not think Mozilla should go along with the collapse of any form of democracy.

Russia is either exactly like China at this point or it will be like China soon. US companies shouldn't deal with authoritarian governments. I also dislike that Cisco is a big Chinese government contractor.