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Censorship

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Mozilla has just turned Firefox into a tool that censors "objectionable content" from people such as the President of The United States, without my knowledge. In this, it has followed lockstep with Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter on this path. This indicates a strong push towards globalism and the ultimate rule of the CCP over our country.

I thought that "Open Source" was kind of synonymous with "politically agnostic" in terms of implementation. However, it now appears that Firefox has been "bought out" so that it can support a political agenda. That is disappointing, operationally and ethically. That the kind of stuff they do in China.

I have immediately removed Firefox from every system in my house and have installed Brave instead. I will do the same with my clients as I see them.

My question is this: Given that Thunderbird is still part of Mozilla, shall I expect the same behavior from it as I'm seeing from Firefox? Will it become a tool of the CCP as Firefox has? Will it start censoring certain email content based on someone else's opinion?

I have another email client waiting in the wings, one that does NOT have a built-in political agenda, and right now I'm about ready to jump.

Mozilla has just turned Firefox into a tool that '''censors''' "objectionable content" from people such as the President of The United States, without my knowledge. In this, it has followed lockstep with Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter on this path. This indicates a strong push towards globalism and the ultimate rule of the CCP over our country. I thought that "Open Source" was kind of synonymous with "politically agnostic" in terms of implementation. However, it now appears that Firefox has been "bought out" so that it can support a political agenda. That is disappointing, operationally and ethically. That the kind of stuff they do in China. I have immediately removed Firefox from every system in my house and have installed Brave instead. I will do the same with my clients as I see them. My question is this: Given that Thunderbird is still part of Mozilla, shall I expect the same behavior from it as I'm seeing from Firefox? Will it become a tool of the CCP as Firefox has? Will it start censoring certain email content based on someone else's opinion? I have another email client waiting in the wings, one that does NOT have a built-in political agenda, and right now I'm about ready to jump.

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Hi Tom, Neither Firefox, nor Thunderbird are social platforms. I assume that what you're hearing about is following blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

It is about de-platforming those who incite violence and hate (whether that be Trump or China). I don't see the term "objectionable content" in that post, so I'm not sure who you're quoting.

Open source means that the source code is public. For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

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Old Tomcat said

I thought that "Open Source" was kind of synonymous with "politically agnostic" in terms of implementation.

Further to Chris' posting (with which I concur), each open source platform sets their own ethical goals and standards. Some organizations may have no ethical standards or desire to see the internet used in an ethical manner. Mozilla is about more than just software - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

Old Tomcat said

My question is this: Given that Thunderbird is still part of Mozilla, shall I expect the same behavior from it as I'm seeing from Firefox?

Scroll down https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/about/ and you will see that the Thunderbird project is not managed by Mozilla.