DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists

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."

Comments

This will drive a record number of people

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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

Re:A reasonable stance

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Never heard of Mafiaafire, but I'll check it ou

[norriefc]

Thanks for the Streisand effect DHS

Re:I hate Government

[lennier]

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.

Re:Yeah right

[M. Baranczak]

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.

Re:A reasonable stance

[cpu6502]

>>>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.