On 5/13/13 1:50 PM, Sameer Rahmani wrote: > Hi, > > Please take a look at: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/filter/ > > The above addon helps our government to censor web and internet which is > against the openness of web and also users rights. In Iran government > filtered people access to many, many websites, web content and internet > access. It's clearly against the mission of mozilla and even human rights. > > I was talking about this case with channel operators #amo-editors on > irc.mozilla.org . They told me that it's not against mozilla policy, so i > want to make a request to change that policy to rejects such addons or > application form mozilla.org and its related websites. > > > See Also: > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission > > Best Regards > Lxsameer >
Hello, Just to expand a little bit on this, the add-on is just a reporting tool that people can use to submit inappropriate sites to (what looks like) the Iranian authorities. The add-on itself doesn't do any censorship itself. We host add-ons with similar features (reporting or filtering bad sites, for some definition of "bad"), but this is the first one that is associated to a government institution. So, technically, nothing that this add-on does is against our policies. While we're obviously not happy with what the add-on does, we try as much as possible to separate ourselves from the add-on content as much as possible (we only have some restrictions on adult content, gambling, and warez). Thoughts? Jorge _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
