“The chief executive of Mozilla Corporation, which runs the Firefox web browser, came out strongly this week against the open internet. “We need more than deplatforming,” Mitchell Baker wrote”
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Wow I was rewarded GREATLY for looking up Mitchell Baker. She has a degree in literally Chinese Studies from literally Berkeley a…
“The chief executive of Mozilla Corporation, which runs the Firefox web browser, came out strongly this week against the open internet. “We need more than deplatforming,” Mitchell Baker wrote”
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Wow I was rewarded GREATLY for looking up Mitchell Baker. She has a degree in literally Chinese Studies from literally Berkeley and she is a lawyer. On top of that she looks like she runs an orphanage in the early 1900s.
Mozilla is the company that Brendan Eich, the founder, was run out of in one of the first major cancellations. Brendan Eich was a computer programmer with actual skills who created something. He invented JavaScript. He’s been succeeded by the most obnoxious no-talent hag at your HOA meeting.
I can’t think of a more perfect encapsulation of the dumbass retrograde society that we live in.
Very much agree about the danger in Baker’s intentions. But also listed in the piece and not mentioned above are two points that probably Common Sense folks can get behind (as long as they are implemented universally):
1. Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
2. Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
Very much agree about the danger in Baker’s intentions. But also listed in the piece and not mentioned above are two points that probably Common Sense folks can get behind (as long as they are implemented universally):
1. Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
2. Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
LMAO nice. Click on my newsletter and read the one called ‘The Comments Suction’. It includes a long post-Jan 6 comment from The Dispatch comments that is so insane you gotta read it.
Nice folks there, but it is infested with some of the most despicable concern trolls and frauderates of all time.
(a frauderate is someone posing as a moderate who is actually just a radical leftist trying to gaslight, manipulate, and shift the Overton window)
Well, yes. Bari as the editor, Nellie as the writer. Bari tweeted the same thing. Both seem to have mistook the Mozilla tweet/ blog posting from 2021 for a blog post from this week.
I can remember way back in time - say maybe 4 years ago - when Firefox was an alternative browser to Google or Microsoft products because Firefox protected your privacy. I long since switched to Brave but it is only a matter of time......
This is right. Even as a supporter of gay marriage (which is the issue that ultimately caused the company rift), I immediately deleted Firefox after what happened with Eich. It was unconscionable what happened with him, and there was no way I was going to continue to support those ungrateful, bellicose little children.
I tried Firefox as an alternative to the authoritarian freaks at Google Chrome. It was a disaster. Can anyone offer an alternative to these browsers? Same for search. DuckDuckGo is not very good, either.
I've been using Brave for some time, and Protonmail for email. Warning, financial institution and governments punish people who try to minimize surveillance.
What I found, too. Brave was great, but many websites would not recognize or accept it. Found myself constantly switching back to Chrome just to get my business done. And I despise Chrome for its giant need to gobble my data.
We’ve purchased the high level Proton for mail and VPN and run our own domain for it. Well worth the money.
I techie coworker said I’ll draw suspicion because I don’t use google or Microsoft. I have a junk account with Google that is for all practical purposes never used so I’m clear. 😁
There is an older guy at our local supermarket in Wydaho who bags groceries and brings in the carts from the parking lot. He always wears his hat, shitkickers, and black leather duster on snow days. Even has the Kurt-Russel-Tombstone-Stache.
We have a rodeo at the county fairgrounds every summer. By far and above the most popular event is teams of lubricated people (inside) trying to capture a greased pig.
There are millions of people who are not married who have property issues and custody disputes. The courts may take into account that the parties consider themselves married to whatever extent that may affect the issues. That does not mean that the government has to bless the marriage.
Certainly gov't is not required to do so. I am sympathetic to your point. But that's solved by not getting married. Marriage is how most societies arranged family forever. Because that is true there is a role for government (though it should be as minimal as possible).
Government recognition of marriage is for TAX purposes primarily. The ruling giving federal government recognition to gay marriage was a tax dispute.
The government applied tax treatment to marriage because they concluded it the "state" had a compelling interest in promoting the nuclear family. Decades of decay in most urban centers in the US is proving that to be a sound conclusion.
Should marriage status still be a tax consideration? I don't think so, but I understand how it became one many decades ago.
THE Lars Porsena? Of Clusium? Who swore by the nine gods? (I memorized the first eight or nine stanzas in sixth grade fifty-something years ago. Couldn't resist!)
Good question. If you cancel your only options, you just have to wait for a sufficient number of cancellers to create space for competition. The government's answer for monopolies have never worked. After all, their policies make monopolies possible.
“The chief executive of Mozilla Corporation, which runs the Firefox web browser, came out strongly this week against the open internet. “We need more than deplatforming,” Mitchell Baker wrote”
————————————————
Wow I was rewarded GREATLY for looking up Mitchell Baker. She has a degree in literally Chinese Studies from literally Berkeley and she is a lawyer. On top of that she looks like she runs an orphanage in the early 1900s.
Mozilla is the company that Brendan Eich, the founder, was run out of in one of the first major cancellations. Brendan Eich was a computer programmer with actual skills who created something. He invented JavaScript. He’s been succeeded by the most obnoxious no-talent hag at your HOA meeting.
I can’t think of a more perfect encapsulation of the dumbass retrograde society that we live in.
Very much agree about the danger in Baker’s intentions. But also listed in the piece and not mentioned above are two points that probably Common Sense folks can get behind (as long as they are implemented universally):
1. Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
2. Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
Very much agree about the danger in Baker’s intentions. But also listed in the piece and not mentioned above are two points that probably Common Sense folks can get behind (as long as they are implemented universally):
1. Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
2. Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.
It's really a wild piece of corporate writing
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids
Robert Conquest's Second law of politics: "Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing."
By the way, I recognize your handle from The Dispatch, where I was recently kicked off for being a bad person or something.
LMAO nice. Click on my newsletter and read the one called ‘The Comments Suction’. It includes a long post-Jan 6 comment from The Dispatch comments that is so insane you gotta read it.
Nice folks there, but it is infested with some of the most despicable concern trolls and frauderates of all time.
(a frauderate is someone posing as a moderate who is actually just a radical leftist trying to gaslight, manipulate, and shift the Overton window)
I'm afraid Bari got the date wrong - this tweet is a full year old - 2 days after the original Jan 6.
Fixed! Written a year ago this week but for some reason only started getting noticed now
I think you mean Nellie, right? Not sure what you’re talking about.
Well, yes. Bari as the editor, Nellie as the writer. Bari tweeted the same thing. Both seem to have mistook the Mozilla tweet/ blog posting from 2021 for a blog post from this week.
Oh okay so this Mitchell Baker person has been a dangerous totalitarian for at least 12 months then.
😂😂
But dumbasses are the most likely to go to war.
I can remember way back in time - say maybe 4 years ago - when Firefox was an alternative browser to Google or Microsoft products because Firefox protected your privacy. I long since switched to Brave but it is only a matter of time......
Lol, imagine an NYC cabbie taking time away from maniacal driving or ranting about global politics to demand your pronouns
"He’s been succeeded by the most obnoxious no-talent hag at your HOA meeting"
Do we live in the same HOA?
Well our HOA hag ruined our HOA so we defunded it and had it legally removed...we have no HOA.,..da hag ruined it
I have been laughing about
“da hag ruined it”
for the last five minutes.
😂😂😂😂
Lest people think this has taken a sexist turn, the HOA hag is just as often a guy as it is a girl.
LOL science has shown they are all identical.
TRUST THE SCIENCE!!!!!!!!
This is right. Even as a supporter of gay marriage (which is the issue that ultimately caused the company rift), I immediately deleted Firefox after what happened with Eich. It was unconscionable what happened with him, and there was no way I was going to continue to support those ungrateful, bellicose little children.
Always happy when my choices are validated
I tried Firefox as an alternative to the authoritarian freaks at Google Chrome. It was a disaster. Can anyone offer an alternative to these browsers? Same for search. DuckDuckGo is not very good, either.
I've been using Brave for some time, and Protonmail for email. Warning, financial institution and governments punish people who try to minimize surveillance.
What I found, too. Brave was great, but many websites would not recognize or accept it. Found myself constantly switching back to Chrome just to get my business done. And I despise Chrome for its giant need to gobble my data.
Check out Neeva.com
Brave is what I use - https://brave.com/
Thanks I will check it out. I like protonmail for e-mail
We’ve purchased the high level Proton for mail and VPN and run our own domain for it. Well worth the money.
I techie coworker said I’ll draw suspicion because I don’t use google or Microsoft. I have a junk account with Google that is for all practical purposes never used so I’m clear. 😁
Well, you could go full Red Pill, buy a black leather duster, and start using Tor..
There is an older guy at our local supermarket in Wydaho who bags groceries and brings in the carts from the parking lot. He always wears his hat, shitkickers, and black leather duster on snow days. Even has the Kurt-Russel-Tombstone-Stache.
Two thumbs up on the 'stache!
We have a rodeo at the county fairgrounds every summer. By far and above the most popular event is teams of lubricated people (inside) trying to capture a greased pig.
Extra points for the black leather duster
Did you read "Same for search DuckDuckGo is not very good, either." I may be old but.......
No worries. If I had a dollar for every comment I fired off.....
I am opposed to ‘gay marriage’ but that’s just because I’m also opposed to ‘straight marriage’. Not the government’s business.
I don’t want people to get tax breaks because they found love and I didn’t. Unfair!!
😂😂
There is no reason for government to decide who is married and who is not.
Except for property division and child custody disputes?
There are millions of people who are not married who have property issues and custody disputes. The courts may take into account that the parties consider themselves married to whatever extent that may affect the issues. That does not mean that the government has to bless the marriage.
Certainly gov't is not required to do so. I am sympathetic to your point. But that's solved by not getting married. Marriage is how most societies arranged family forever. Because that is true there is a role for government (though it should be as minimal as possible).
The government made it a financial contract to further enrich lawyers.
Government recognition of marriage is for TAX purposes primarily. The ruling giving federal government recognition to gay marriage was a tax dispute.
The government applied tax treatment to marriage because they concluded it the "state" had a compelling interest in promoting the nuclear family. Decades of decay in most urban centers in the US is proving that to be a sound conclusion.
Should marriage status still be a tax consideration? I don't think so, but I understand how it became one many decades ago.
Probate can be pretty lucrative and it doesn't come with as many death threats.
I immediately deleted Firefox after what happened with Eich. Me too. Incipient totaliterianism.
THE Lars Porsena? Of Clusium? Who swore by the nine gods? (I memorized the first eight or nine stanzas in sixth grade fifty-something years ago. Couldn't resist!)
Brave browser.
Good question. If you cancel your only options, you just have to wait for a sufficient number of cancellers to create space for competition. The government's answer for monopolies have never worked. After all, their policies make monopolies possible.