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by from-nibly 473 days ago
> Ladybird is also not ideologically captured by anti freedom extremists with self contradictory beliefs. Mozilla refuses to allow anyone to donate to firefox development because they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.

Can you expand on this? This feels wildly editorialized.
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yjftsjthsd-h 473 days ago
So there are 2 Mozillas: There's the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. The corporation develops Firefox. The foundation takes donations. For reasons I don't claim to understand (IANAL, and I gather there's tax law stuff involved), the foundation apparently can't give the corporation money to work on the browser. This leads to a regular point of confusion and a complaint because people would very much like to financially support the browser, but there is literally no way to donate to it. Now I believe (again, IANAL) that there are ways they could arrange things so that people could give money to the corporation for the browser, but they have not done those things. A person could plausibly argue that that's because Mozilla Foundation wants people to donate to the foundation and not the browser, though I'm not sure if they've ever publicly said anything explicitly. (If they have, I would very much appreciate links.)
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cholantesh 473 days ago
Where does this come into play?

>they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.

It sounds _incredibly_ suspect, frankly.

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LightHugger 473 days ago
Mozilla's self stated mission as a self proclaimed "global crew of activists" [1] is to "more than deplatform" [2] people they disagree with. Deplatforming just means censorship in this context and they want people they don't like more than censored, they want them off the internet completely. Pretty dangerous for a company making a browser to list infringing on people's human rights as a goal, but they've convinced themselves they're the good guys.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-o...

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need...

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cholantesh 472 days ago
lmao
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