{"id":63095,"date":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2020\/09\/30\/how-to-unfck\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T02:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T02:07:28","slug":"how-to-unfck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/how-to-unfck\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how we unfck the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to unfck the internet. We should take it. How we talk, work, and play online depends on it.<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic? No, <i>Kardashians<\/i> is dramatic. The truth is we have more than a few problems to deal with. A whole sh*tton of how we communicate is controlled by a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jonathanponciano\/2020\/08\/26\/worlds-richest-billionaire-jeff-bezos-first-200-billion\/#15925d74db7b\">centi-billionaires<\/a>. That\u2019s a new word for all of us: centi-billionaire. It means worth over $100 billion USD. Each.<\/p>\n<p>Social networks are using us as much as we use them. They slice and dice us into categories to get micro-targeted. Newsflash: people aren\u2019t \u201ctargets\u201d and it\u2019s not cool to create little bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and security. If you\u2019re sick of reading about \u2014 and getting caught in \u2014 one data breach after another, we feel you.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get out of this mess, we are with you. Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a>, was purpose-built to make the internet what it can be: an open tool for everyone \u2014 the powerful and the weak, the right and the left, everyone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7521\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2020\/09\/ff_blog_header_unfck_1400x770-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"260\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>This is How We Unfck the Internet<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Unlike every politician who answers every crisis with a five-point plan, ours isn&#8217;t a CYA. We don\u2019t do politics. We do one thing: Build a better internet. Here\u2019s what we think is needed to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>DEPENDABLE SECURITY<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>People deserve to feel safe with the knowledge that their personal information is shielded from hackers, spies and strangers. <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/\"><i>Let\u2019s Encrypt<\/i>,<\/a> an alliance Mozilla helped found, now delivers greater security to over 85% of web transactions \u2014 while adding the \u201cs\u201d in \u201chttps:\/\/\u201d \u2014 proving that security is possible on a large scale. With security comes trust, and trust will be the bedrock of a better internet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>FAIR TRADE DATA<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b>Today big tech companies use data to target us with advertising, governments use it to surveil, and machine learning tools extract all the stuff. Mozilla takes less data (Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/privacy\/\">Promise<\/a>.) An unfcked internet means a new bargain. Personal information will get used for our own good or the benefit of our communities, not against us.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>TRUSTED CONTENT<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b>Trust what you see and decide for yourself. Not a crazy idea, right? Change the incentives for the platforms and bring better content choices to us. This is what Mozilla\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/getpocket.com\">Pocket<\/a> does. Contextual recommendations, not behavioral targeting. Just people. On an unfcked internet, companies will bear their fair share of responsibility for identifying and responding to bad people.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>ONLINE RESPECT<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More kindness, less blaming. We believe in it so much that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/mozilla-presses-pause-facebook-advertising\/\">we left Facebook <\/a>over privacy and will stay away until it can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stophateforprofit.org\/\">#stophateforprofit<\/a>. On an unfcked internet, platforms will create incentives to stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/28\/us\/kenosha-shooting-protests.html\">f<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/28\/us\/kenosha-shooting-protests.html\">omenting conflict<\/a> that traps us in a closed loop of negativity, degrades conversation and is a breeding ground for deadly violence. Build community standards and enforce them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>UNIVERSAL ACCESS<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b>Connect to the internet, get access to the world. Too many people don\u2019t have this option. Mozilla supports <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/fellowships\/\">Fellows<\/a> who work on infrastructure, policy and countless other issues to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/category\/africa\/\">web more equitable<\/a>. To make an unfcked internet, leaders and corporations need to collaborate to provide options that serve school, work, opportunity, and human connection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It&#8217;s go time<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We need everyone to make this work \u2014 us, you, them. Businesses need to stand up and commit to practices that put people first. Governments need to recognize their role in shaping the networks that connect the world. And people need to push them.<\/p>\n<p>For more ways you can unfck the system, please visit&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firefox.com\/unfck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http:\/\/www.firefox.com\/unfck\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to unfck the internet. We should take it. How we talk, work, and play online depends on it. Dramatic? No, Kardashians is dramatic. The truth is we have more than a few problems to deal with. A whole sh*tton of how we communicate is controlled by a few centi-billionaires. That\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1439,"featured_media":57521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[451298],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This is how we unfck the internet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to unfck the internet. 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