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Perhaps Mozilla could take a cue from OK Cupid, which blocked Firefox to protest Eich's nomination as Mozilla's CEO, and stop rendering US government websites o
by yosefk 10y ago
Perhaps Mozilla could take a cue from OK Cupid, which blocked Firefox to protest Eich's nomination as Mozilla's CEO, and stop rendering US government websites or perhaps a random list of websites related to Trump or his supporters. Then a Trump-supporting CEO of some ISP can throttle HTTP traffic issued by Mozilla. Then a Trump-opposing CPU manufacturer can build into their hardware some logic detecting the word "Trump" preceded by a positive adjective from a list and hard-reset the CPU. Then a Trump-supporting DRAM controller vendor can drop writes to DRAM if the burst contains the word "Clinton."
And then perhaps users, consumers and other innocent bystanders will finally rise as one and stake all these people. And we shall have peace.
- toxican 10y agoYes, they should forsake THE ENTIRE FREAKING BASIS OF THE FOUNDATION by playing gatekeeper for the internet.
- mcherm 10y ago> Perhaps Mozilla could [...] stop rendering US government websites or perhaps a random list of websites related to Trump or his supporters. The STRONG commitment on the part of Mozilla to NEVER engage in such tactics is one of the reasons I make it my preferred browser. I have no objection to their expressing their political beliefs through press releases, even if I am not sure it rises to the level of "newsworthiness" to be upvoted on Hacker News.