The Department of Homeland Security U.S. asks to withdraw Mafiaa Mozilla Fire

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Technologie - Général
Friday, 06 May 2011 10:20

A few weeks ago my colleague Miguel Jorge told you about an extension for Firefox called Mafiaa Fire, this makes an automatic redirection of the sites have been blocked recently by issues related to copyright. Its operation is very simple, basically what it does is that when we insert the address of a site that has been blocked sends us directly to the new direction for the web. However, this extension has not been too fond of the United States government, who have asked to withdraw the extension Mozilla.

I personally think that this extension has not much mystery, performing the same function as any of us can make saving the new address of the website blocked, but of course makes life easier for the user automatically doing to help them avoid the restrictions of a government. And so have asked Mozilla to remove it, who at first rejected it because that kind of censorship threatens the free and open Internet.

Harvey Anderson works in the legal department of Mozilla and explains in his blog this fact . He says that they sent the application and how to act in such cases, in which ensures compliance with court orders, but in this case there was none.

Our approach is to comply with valid court orders and legal mandates, the worst in almost no court order. Therefore, to evaluate the request of Homeland Security, we made a number of questions.

Anderson refers to a document in which we can see the issues made ​​by Mozilla on this case and where they basically ask about the reasons for withdrawing the extent and above all, to provide legal documents of orders court if any. By the time they have received no response from the Department of Homeland Security.

Curiously this type of skills which are often censorious governments and equally in as many cases do not usually lead to nothing more than to enrage people. As if one day decide to cut your access to any place you go to take the road by which I usually do and then other people decide to take a path through the field and want to arrest him for it.

By the time the extension is still available both in the Mozilla repository and on page own website extension. To download and use it to do, because in the event that a court has said that Mozilla must remove the extension probably will.

The Department of Homeland Security to withdraw U.S. asks Mozilla Fire Mafiaa written ALT1040 on 6 May, 2011 by David Blonde
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