Yes, regarding government censorship, it is possible it reflects the will of the people and I definitely don't disagree with a crime reporting tool in principle.
The issue in this case is that it seems to be a tool to help suppress the will of the people. What options do people who disagree with the government have? Someone already mentioned that those violating these rules are potentially subject to torture and death, not just to having their site blocked. I agree that we could use human rights violations as a line to draw. We could also agree to be apolitical entirely and don't host any government tools on AMO, I'm not sure that would be detrimental to our users as it makes more sense for them to get these types of tools from their government websites anyway. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Justin Dolske <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ______________________________**_________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/governance<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance> > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
