Mozilla Information Trust Initiative - Part of Firefox or an Add-on?
 

I've heard about Firefox's "Mozilla Information Trust Initiative" AKA " fake news" initiative.

Is this something which will result in "fake news" censorship being a part of Firefox? Or will it result in a new add-on for people who want it?



I'm curious because I really don't want that kind of censorship. Some folks (myself included) view this as a possible method of censorship, which goes against Freedom Zero, which in this case would be using the Internet for any purpose - instead of having either megacorporations or a single political party govern what people can read on the Internet.

While I appreciate the ethical stuff Mozilla does with Firefox, I don't think they should have the power to censor what people read on on the Internet. That would give them too much power which could be misused.

Have you read the Mozilla blog post about it? https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/0...mation-online/

It seems to be still very much in the formative stages. Mozilla does note that

Frankly, as far as I am concerned, "fake news" is not a technology problem.

It's a persons problem: persons who don't read, don't think, don't investigate, and don't reflect.

I actually had not read that. I was looking for something like that on their site, but I guess I just didn't look hard enough.

So, it's really just to teach users to identify fake news and it's not something which will lead to censorship?

i applaud the idea behind it, but i can't see how it could be implemented without constituting censorship.

no, i prefer freedom of speech, even if it means i have to put up with more BS.

That's exactly how I feel about this particular issue. I was just worried that Mozilla was going to make Firefox perform that kind of censorship.

I share the qualms of Mr. Macintosh and Ondoho, with this proviso: If some way could be found to block bots that spew Tweets and Facebook posts and other phoney social media thingees while pretending to be independent actors, I would not consider that censorship and could support such an effort.