Well, that seems to be it for me using Firefox as my main webbrowser in the near future. The clearly Social Justice Warrior oriented people in charge at Mozilla (ask Brendan Eich), have now decided to join Facebook and others in the political and media elite in seeing a major threat in “Fake News”, aka news that is inconvenient to their mainstream, status quo propaganda narrative. If they were truly against Fake News, after all, we should have been able to expect their website to start blocking the Washington Post, CNN and the New York Times, as well as any other piece of elite media that the Podesta emails have revealed were in Hillary Clinton and the DNC’s pockets.
What is generally meant by “Fake News”, is not so much fake news, as it is alternative news. News that the MSM refuses to inform readers about; and which may be entirely inconvenient to the political elite. The internet has made it possible for civilian and independent reporters to bring information to the consumer, that the MSM either doesn’t think the consumer needs to know, or that it thinks the consumer simply shouldn’t know.
Sure, there is a lot of stuff that is no more than OpEds, but how is that different from OpEds in the MSM, which give you the same pro-elite, mainstream garbage day after day? Sure, there is information out there on the web that is simply garbage, but how is that different from the MSM, which leans so far toward the elite (and left) that it is constantly in a state of capsizing? Remember the report about Donald Trump allegedly having a woman piss on a Russian hotel room bed, where Barack Obama had slept on previous occasions?
The excuse, of course, is that this “news” is brought courtesy of sources that wish to remain anonymous. Well, when i bring you the news tomorrow that pink aliens are about to roam our sewers, you”ll just have to trust me. I have credible sources. They just wish to remain anonymous. See how that works?
As a matter of fact, forget about this particularly sleazy example about Trump. Remember the Weapons of Mass Destruction that Saddam Hussein allegedly had? And how the entire media establishment simply accepted this premise as if it was proven fact? As we all know by now, it was FAKE NEWS.
So to reiterate; it is not about Fake News; it is about alternative news. It is not about news that is untrue or unverified; it is about news that is unacceptable or inconvenient to the elite.
Anyway, the culture warriors at the helm at Mozilla now clearly want to join the fray in determining for all of us that there is Fake News out there, what Fake News is, and that we should be guarded from it. Mozilla may shrug its shoulders collectively by claiming it makes no specific claim about any “guilty” parties, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is that they clearly buy into the “Fake News” narrative and the notion that consumers ought to be “protected” from it. Of course, anyone that doesn’t want to read any kind of information that is convenient to them, can simply move along with the click of a mouse, so this is really about trying to steer consumers clear of content they might otherwise actually be likely to read.
No matter which way you turn it, if there is one thing i loathe, it is any kind of provider telling me what is good for me. I particularly dislike any kind of provider that makes clear that for them it is political elite all the way, in a way that is judgemental about those think and feel differently. Mozilla, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, is what happens when things are run by corporations, which themselves are run by pro-elite politically correct sermonizers. Its what is likely to happen to any company that will grow to big for its britches, as the bottom line is still too important when they are smaller and in danger of losing their market share.
But they still can, if only the consumer let them know how he feels about this. The behavior of these kinds of company is based on the arrogant presumption that their market share is so large that they’ll have nothing to worry about.
But what happened to Netscape, can happen to Mozilla.
I think i am about to do my small part in trying to achieve that.