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DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists

Posted by timothy on from the just-a-polite-note-from-the-well-armed-neighbors dept.

Davis Freeberg writes "The Department of Homeland Security is hard at work again, protecting the industry from websites that the big studios don't want you to see. This time they're targeting the Mafiaafire plugin by asking Mozilla to disable the addon at the root level. Instead of blindly complying with the government's request, Mozilla has decided to ask some tough questions instead. Unsurprisingly, when faced with legitimate concerns about the legality of their domain seizure program, the DHS has decided to clam up."

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  1. This will drive a record number of people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This will drive a record number of people to install the plug in...

    Thanks DHS, we appreciate the endorsement and confirmation of its efficacy!!!

  2. Re:A reasonable stance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I still don't understand why the Department of Homeland Security has to be involved with websites. Shouldn't that be reserved for the cyberpolice? That's where I report all the people who'd done goof'd.

  3. Re:Never heard of Mafiaafire, but I'll check it ou by norriefc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for the Streisand effect DHS

  4. Re:A reasonable stance by reboot246 · · Score: 3, Funny

    13. Who died and made you God?

    (they think they are!)

  5. Re:I hate Government by lennier · · Score: 4, Funny

    The smaller the societies, the more violent and more convulsive their schisms.

    "They told me a city at the bottom of the ocean populated entirely by paranoid sociopaths would fracture into civil war, so you know what I did? I set them on fire. With bees." -- Andrew Ryan.

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  6. Re:Yeah right by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pernicious nonsense. The Tea Party is a group of patriotic Americans who seek to return this great country to the principles on which it was founded: liberty and equal rights for all, except slaves, Indians and women.

  7. Re:A reasonable stance by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 3, Funny

    The DHS has never done just one thing-- maybe that's why they don't do it well.

  8. Re:A reasonable stance by cpu6502 · · Score: 4, Funny

    >>>disappear your ass and throw you in Guantanamo Bay

    Now that's crazy. No way could the Homeland SA get away with throwing a natural-born citizen into some random prison without trial.

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  9. Re:DHS chose the wrong people by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 3, Funny

    But, don't you see?? The media pirates are not spending money on the stuff they STEAL, and that means they have more disposable income to give to the TERRORISTS!!!

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    Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.