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Three years later, are Mozilla and Firefox in a better place?

Three years ago CNET addressed whoever might step into Mozilla‘s then-empty CEO slot and asked 10 questions about the future of the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser. It was a chaotic time, with Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich quitting after a controversy over his stance on gay marriage, and Google‘s Chrome increasing its threat as the browser of choice for …

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China trains companies to censor the internet more quickly

How effective is tight government censorship if companies aren’t any good at censoring? China on Thursday held a training drill to help internet service providers, including data centres, get better at emergency requests to pull “harmful” content from the net, reports Reuters.  The country’s Ministry of Public Security ordered the drill in an attempt to “tackle the problem of smaller …

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