The damage is done since people will critique Mozilla for anything that isn't snuffing Google.
I'm glad they reversed the decision.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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They were forced to delist it temporarily in Russia. The fact that they listed it again tells me that they listen to the community, like they claimed, and that they value said community above the russian government.
Well, they listen to the community when what the community is pointing out is a very obvious mistake which has a very high probability of causing a whole lot of bad press, at least.
Such an abrupt reversal is puzzling. Did they think Firefox users don't care?
[Off-topic] As I was reading the comments from a related thread, I noticed that the comments there can be tagged by the community. (See Alfman's comment, being tagged as "verbose"). That would be an amazing feature here in the Fediverse forums/link-sharers.
[On-topic] I wonder if Mozilla was buying time to retract its staff from Russia? Even if not, I respect their ability to revert a decision in a transparent way, and apologise to the community without sounding like a corporate "apology". It shows that they actually care about the principles that they're babbling about, even if they violated them with the temporary removal.
Re your off-topic aside, it looks more like that user has been tagged as verbose (whether that mean long comments or a high volume of posts isn't clear).
Yup, you're right - the tag is for the user, not the comment as I incorrectly said.
Either way it would be a neat feature IMO. (I'd be probably among the first being tagged "verbose", but I'm OK with this - other people could be tagged as "informative", "fun" etc.)
I wonder if Mozilla was buying time to retract its staff from Russia?
Do you mean firing Russian employees? And preventing other employees from ever travelling to Russia, even for private reasons?
I don't think that's very practical 😅
More like asking them what to do, that wouldn't put either their heads or Mozilla's values in the guillotine. Looking for options.
That's just conjecture from my part, mind you.
Glad theu withdrawed it