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Why is everyone ditching FF? They are grewing according by StatCounter! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Now, a few weeks ago, Firefox has posted that controverse article about "de-platforming" people like Trump, now, I was reading the article, but it was a bit too complicated to understand, what's the problem with it and I was reading the comments on Twitter (which is never a good idea), where anyone was attacking Mozilla.

So, can anyone please explain, whats wrong with it? Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

As far as I can tell, people took offense of this sentence:

By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one

Because they think the "when" should be an "if" at most, or better even, let's just let the Nazis run this place.

Trump was inciting violence on his way out. He was the pivot of racists, extremists and other bigots. And yet they still think that taking someone's megaphone away is worse than people dying.

It's this absolutist free speech position where any encroachment on free speech is deemed worse than anything in the world.
Hell, the rest of that article even says that we should not deplatform people, we should not limit free speech. It should be the last reserve and we should take other measures in advance instead.

Mozilla is on the side of free speech here. But they get portrayed as the enemy, because they don't go along with absolutist free speech which tolerates hate speech.