Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by chuckharmston 3179 days ago
Mozilla isn't neutral politically, though there isn't a specific political alignment that is endorsed. That is, it's issue-focused, rather than partisan.

We have a strongly-worded manifesto that lays out what we believe: https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/

Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, talking about how the current political environment in America might overlay that manifesto: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2017/03/13/the-worldview-of-...

I'm an employee at Mozilla, though am trying to set personal politics aside to present public explanation of our institutional viewpoint.

4 comments

Maybe I didn't word my comment correctly. But I thought of politically neutral as not left-wing nor right-wing, not openly supporting capitalism nor being openly against capitalism. I wouldn't be surprised by Mozilla pushing privacy, free speech and copyright related political agendas, but I am surprised by it supporting a left wing organization.
Mozilla certainly do lots of things to support capitalism, too.
What part of Mozilla's manifesto supports revolutionary socialism?
> though there isn't a specific political alignment that is endorsed.

After browsing RiseUp's site, you would certainly think otherwise.

> 05 Individuals must have the ability to shape the Internet and their own experiences on it.

Try and stop HTML5 video from autoplaying. Try walking the talk for once.

about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled

Some sites are buggy with this preference. Hopefully you will not lay that at Mozilla's feet.