On 24/11/14 02:42, Adam Porter wrote: > Mozilla's recent announcement of deals with Baidu and Yandex concerns > me. Baidu is in China, a nation in which every entity is subject to > the whims of its lawless government (and many entities owned by it > outright),
Having been recently in China, and seeing how broken Google's stuff is (like, everything, including analytics), your choice in China is to ship a search engine which does what the Chinese government wants, or not ship one at all. Are you advocating we not ship one at all? > media, including all Internet access. Yandex is in Russia, the > government of which is currently engaged in the invasion and > annexation of a sovereign nation, and which appears to exercise some > degree of control over Yandex, perhaps indirectly. Russia is a different case to China. But they do exercise control over many businesses - some would say, _all_ large ones. What would you have our policy be? We don't do deals with any company in a country where the government exercises control over the activities of those businesses, and has a poor human rights or international relations record? People from some perspectives might argue that list should include both the US and UK. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
