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), a government which regularly commits egregious > human rights abuses against even its own citizens, and which censors > 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.
And Yahoo (and Google) is in the US, a nation which has never committed human rights abuses, never attempts to censor, blackmail or imprison whistleblowers and other civil liberties advocates, has certainly never invaded a sovereign nation or overthrown democratically elected governments to install dictatorships, and definitely doesn't try to force companies to install backdoors or bend to its whim. Oh wait... that's not true, and doesn't really have anything to do with Yahoo. > These nations' principles, values, and laws are antithetical to > Mozilla's stated goals, principles, and values of openness, freedom, > equality, and human rights. How then can Mozilla be funded by them? How > can this be seen as equivalent to Mozilla's former deals with Google? Because you could reasonably argue that the US doesn't have a shining human rights record. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find any country which has an untarnished human rights record, except maybe the Federated States of Micronesia? (I'm not sure any search engines operate out of there, though...) I'm sure that everybody who works at the NSA reads the Mozilla Manifesto before they go to bed and thinks, "Good job, me, I upheld this today!" ~Leo
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