On 19/12/13 20:48, Asa Dotzler wrote: > I introduced my concern -- that Mozillians in the West often drop in to > discussions like this with little or no local context and propose that > other Mozillians in other radically different areas of the world should > "just do what we do in California and it'll all be great" as if it was > all that simple and easy. I consider those kinds of naive suggestions > unhelpful and in some cases even insulting to the people who have put in > huge Mozilla efforts spanning years (a decade even) trying to figure out > these radically different markets that don't behave at all like how most > Western Mozillians expect.
While I of course agree that different countries are different, I think that Mozilla should not be afraid to or ashamed of having a strong opinion as to what users deserve, and working hard to get it for them everywhere. Is tracking users across sites bad everywhere, or only in the West? I guess one's answer may depend on whether one is a relativist or not. :-) I'm not, so I'm pretty happy with saying that it's bad everywhere, and that we shouldn't do it (or give others the facilities to do it) in the USA and we shouldn't do it in China. The fact that Chinese people have this happen to them far more often and far more egregiously, such that they shrug their shoulders and accept it, is _more_ of a reason to not do it, not less. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
