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That's a bit ... off brand coming from you mozilla. How are the governments going to find and censor things you don't like

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat... https://archive.ph/ia2z4

I see the link is now broken on their site so perhaps they have thought better. STFU and just make firefox.

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Say what you will, but I do not care who is pushing AGAINST Chat Control, as long as they are pushing AGAINST it.

Breaking encryption of private messaging is not the same as not letting propaganda run rampant and to try to equate them is bad-faith propaganda itself.

What they want in that piece is basically censorship. It doesn’t make it ok if you think that speech is bad

https://web.archive.org/web/20240101011830/https://blog.mozi... Looks like it was removed around Nov 2024, ie around the time it became clear American politics was turning tides and Trump would get elected. Regardless of political position, I have no respect for people or companies that have no principled position and pander to $CURRENT_POLITICS.

It wasn't removed, just moved: https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need...

Still true that cool URLs shouldn't change, of course.

Thanks, what does “archived” mean though?

No idea, my guess would be some software migration where it was too much work to copy the old posts over, but I'm not familiar with what happened.

I don't think it's a matter of lack of principles or pander to $CURRENT_POLITICS.

This article is simply about justifying political repression. Then the repression proved ineffective, the article became needless, and since justifying political repression is a rather toxic activity, the article was removed.

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