Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship

• TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As Mozilla, you probably don’t have much choice. What’s the alternative? Get yourself banned? How is that better? At least this way, locals can use Firefox despite not having access to those extensions. And people find clever ways to get those extensions anyway, so it’s the lesser evil I guess?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who cares about Russia? They could just ignore Russia as a country

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    • TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why? Do Russians not deserve a good browser?

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They ideally should be using Tor

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    • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I care about the people there. Same with any oppressive nation/state/province/etc. You can say Russia is a tyranny and you’d be correct, but don’t forget that there are certainly people living there who don’t agree with the regime – and there are people actively being oppressed.

      Surely you don’t think there aren’t any gay Russians, for example. Let’s not throw out all the people who are victims of Russian oppression while we condemn the country itself.

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    • Aileks@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would say the people living there probably care. But sure let’s just delete Firefox from an entire country because you don’t like something Mozilla was forced to do. Good job.

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