On 5/15/13 7:05 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
Which of Mozilla's principles or positions do you think this harms?
Well, from the the Manifesto's "Principles" section:
1. The Internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in
education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and
society as a whole.
2. The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and
accessible.
3. The Internet should enrich the lives of individual human beings.
....
5. Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on
the Internet.
....
10. Magnifying the public benefit aspects of the Internet is an
important goal, worthy of time, attention and commitment.
Most of the project lives in Western democracies and we assume a shared
context that government censorship is a bad thing. But I don't think
it's necessarily our role to try and impose that idea of openness onto
countries which don't currently share that context.
Small bit of nuance: I'm not suggesting we launch an effort to battle
government censorship in various countries or force them to openness.
I just think we don't need to be helping them, even passively so, by
providing a distribution point for this add-on.
(TBH I don't think there even needs to be a policy change, this seems
like a rare 1-off to be dealt with as a special case.)
Justin
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