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Looking at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/, e.g. the "Combating Misinfor
by tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
Looking at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/, e.g. the "Combating Misinformation" is not something that I'd consider one of the core tasks of Mozilla.
I would also assume that there are conferences, grants/sponsorship/stipends, CEO pay, etc.
The audited report lists conferences/conventions meetings and advertising/promotion, two items that some may not want to contribute to.
I'm making no judgement regarding whether these expenses make sense or not, just pointing out something that someone who wants to finance Firefox and MDN may not want to contribute to.
Of course, unless you trust the organization to actually honor the intent behind a donation for a specific purpose, such donations are moot as long as the organization receives enough general-purpose donations: They can just put 100% of the money tied to a specific purpose behind that purpose, but reduce the amount of "general-purpose" money that would otherwise have gone to that purpose by the same amount.
- mschuster91 6y ago> "Combating Misinformation" is not something that I'd consider one of the core tasks of Mozilla. Why? Misinformation is, this should have been proven by now, the greatest threat to democracy in recent history. Browsers, social networks and search engines are the entry point into the web, they have to act with the responsibility that comes with this position (and yes I know neither Facebook nor Google have done a good job the last years).
- ifmpx 6y agoIt's fine to think like this, but it's not fine to use donations for it if those donations were not made for that cause. This is why people don't donate to mozilla.
- worik 6y agoGolly. It is there in their annual report. In part it is what you are donating for. In a way it is MDN's mission
- wow_no 6y agoCombating Misinformation is SV for silencing conservatives