Don't let the virtue signaling of one random who has access to blog on Mozilla's website put you off. Keep believing in whatever that is, we'll eventually get out of this echo chamber.
Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
Considering that, in the Firefox article, this links to an article [1] by The New York Times lamenting with no self-awareness whatsoever that Facebook reversed its temporary signal-boosting of The New York Times... I'm really not comfortable with how "factual" is being defined.
Like, I'm all for researching new ways to share and promote information and fact-checking.
I just don't want them to stop at "We should all listen to what the mainstream center-left media says".
Why should that political view affect your technical decision? You choose and use browsers to browse the internet, not to show or reject support to some political alignment.
I've seen a few people on HN objecting to it too but they didn't seem to have read the actual post.
There's nothing in the post that condones (or condemns) deplatforming. TL;DR of the article is: "Deplatforming happened, but here are 4 additional/different things that are needed that would be more impactful than deplatforming"