Mozilla's Manifesto vs. Geo-blocking in Censored Regions

To the Mozilla Support and Engineering Teams, ​I am writing to express profound disappointment regarding the recent decision to implement GeoIP blocking against Iranian users on your VPN infrastructure. ​The Mozilla Manifesto explicitly states that the internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible, and that individuals' security and privacy are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. By actively blocking connections from a region experiencing some of the most severe internet censorship in the world, Mozilla is directly contradicting its own core principles. ​When you implement geographical blocks against Iranian IPs, you are not just managing network traffic or mitigating bandwidth usage. You are actively participating in the isolation of people who rely on secure tools to access the open web. Cutting off access to privacy tools based on geography effectively means you are doing the censors' work for them. ​True internet freedom cannot be conditional on a user's country of origin. A genuine commitment to an open, secure web means protecting access for those who need it the most, not locking them out. I urge the leadership and engineering teams to reconsider this policy and actually stand by the open-internet values Mozilla claims to represent.