• @[email protected]
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    514 months ago

    I suspect this was a “do it or we’ll categorize Mozilla products as malicious software” situations. But some transparency from Mozilla would be nice.

    • @iopq
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      204 months ago

      They should tell Russia to eat a dick. Remember when Google did that to China? I thought it was very cool of them

      • lad
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        134 months ago

        Unfortunately, the time when they seemed cool is long gone

      • ViXY_DBC
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        @iopq @neuracnu Since when Google becomes your moral guidance? The company literally provided AI assistance to the genocide of tens of thousands of people, it spies on everyone on this planet, and willingly offer those info to the US government at request.

        • hswolf
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          84 months ago

          Well, he mentioned a single action taken by them, not that the companyn is their moral guidance and compass.

          A broken clock is right twice a day after all.

        • @iopq
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          14 months ago

          No, they were cool when their motto was don’t be evil. It is no longer their motto. That was the canary

    • Possibly linux
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      44 months ago

      Let them. If everyone refuses to comply the authoritarian control of the Russian government over its people will crumble a little.

      • Ephera
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        74 months ago

        If everyone

        I think, that’s the problem…

        • Possibly linux
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          74 months ago

          Well at the very least they could of just said no. I don’t think they have a Russian office and if they did they probably should get out of Russia

          • Ephera
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            44 months ago

            I would expect Russia to just ban downloads of Firefox, if they said no. Like, why would Russia not do that? Chrome, Edge, Safari etc. will presumably bend over backwards quite readily. As in, it would be a disservice to the Russian people to get Firefox banned over this.

            • Possibly linux
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              34 months ago

              The Russian government is a disservice to the Russian people. However, I do not think Mozilla should go along with the collapse of any form of democracy.

              Russia is either exactly like China at this point or it will be like China soon. US companies shouldn’t deal with authoritarian governments. I also dislike that Cisco is a big Chinese government contractor.