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Comment on: Firefox introduces extension that automatically censors "hate speech"
To play devil's advocate, if there should be any form of "censorship" on the net in my opinion, it should be through features like these rather than the heavy handed nature of deplatforming. Most sites will give you a way to block or mute an individual you don't want to hear from, I don't really have an issue with that concept being extended to allowing users to curate what language they see. I'd never install an addon or enable a feature like this, but I have no problem with that feature being made available to those individuals who want it. I also wouldn't really call this censorship either unless you also consider someone being able to block, mute or ignore another person censorship. One could argue ad block is censorship too by that logic. All this addon does is give the individual a way to change what they see or don't see. It doesn't affect my browsing experience at all unless I go out of my way to install the addon. I find this much less offensive than the "Block Dangerous or Deceptive content" option which is enabled by default, but even that I don't care that much about since it's very easy to disable that. No doubt, this is a stupid extension and it seems fitting it was released during Woman's History Month, but of the legitimate criticisms that can be thrown at Firefox or Mozilla, I don't know that this would even be on my list.
1 08 Mar 2021 15:44 u/kagayaki in g/technology
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