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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem isn't that they're spending money on political causes and I wouldn't even expect them to do some false balance bs where they'd spend money on left and right wing politics, but spending money on political causes with almost zero transparency (like what do orgs do with the money, how effective are they, are they actually aligned with certain values, who is involved in these orgs, etc) seems fishy as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

(like what do orgs do with the money, how effective are they, are they actually aligned with certain values, who is involved in these orgs, etc)

These are all issues of the organizations own reporting, not anything Mozilla did. Mozilla is not responsible for disclosing the operational details of places it donates to or works with.

The laws and regulations surrounding NPOs, charities, and foundations and what they report are a whole other rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't read the article... Are the organizations secret? I don't think it's fishy if not. Why would they need to spend time justifying things to the public like that?