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Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By doing this they are setting a strong presence. You either can have full Firefox or no Firefox. It isn't right to censor for specific countries.

It is the same thing with EU chat control and Signal.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Idk, I think an addon store is different. Some regions could restrict certain types of addons (e.g. porn, gambling, crypto, language support, etc), and that should be fine. They shouldn't compromise on core Firefox features, but I think region-gating extensions is fine, provided they have a way to side-load extensions.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We aren't talking about gambling here we are talking about massive censorship and attacks on human rights.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the same general idea. Blocking gambling add-ons is just another form of censorship. As long as countries aren't dictating core browser features, I don't see why Mozilla shouldn't comply with blocking access to certain third-party add-ons in their add-on store, but they should allow users to select third-party add-on repos if they so choose (afaik, that's not a thing yet).

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

Gambling has nothing to do with Democratic speech and access to information. We are talking about add ons that might show people the truth. Russia and Putin fear that greatly.