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Mozilla approves Nazi-themed, anti-feminism Firefox extension [Update]

Mozilla Men Kampf Firefox extension
Mozilla could soon find itself at the center of a new controversy, as it just approved a Firefox extension, called Men Kampf, designed with the sole purpose of replacing so-called "radfem rethoric [sic] with nazi friendly alternatives".
Men Kampf scans the page that the Firefox user visits for any words considered to be linked to feminism -- certainly not radical feminism, as claimed in the description -- and replaces them, on the fly, with said "alternatives". As such, an article about feminism will quickly appear to be one about nazism. The developer behind the extension, Erim Secla, says that it's all "just for fun" in Men Kampf's description. Except that it's not.
It's offensive. While feminism is a movement that aims to make the world a better place by promoting equality, nazism is a movement which is linked to one of the darkest periods in history, when millions of people lost their lives and were discriminated against because those who shared the ideology strongly believed in and promoted inequality. Tomato, tomato, eh?
You can see Men Kampf in action by opening the Wikipedia page about Feminism in Firefox, and then another browser. Below is how it looks on Firefox and Google Chrome, respectively.
Men Kampf Firefox Chrome Wikipedia
Next, I wanted to see how Men Kampf works on pages that aren't linked to feminism, so I opened Facebook. Here's how the signup page looks on Firefox and Chrome, respectively -- the extension, in this case, replaces "Male" with "Jew".
Men Kampf Firefox Chrome Facebook
Men Kampf is apparently inspired by a Chrome extension called "Man Kampf" (in reality, it's called Men Kampf and is available in the Chrome Web Store), which is equally offensive. The Chrome counterpart "Turns SJW nonsense into pro-Nazi propaganda. Changes words such as 'Men' into 'Jews' to make any radical feminist post sound like something straight out of Hitler's mouth!", claims its developer in the description.
As you may notice in the screenshot posted at the top of the page, the Firefox add-on store lists it as "preliminary reviewed". What does that mean? Well, it means that Mozilla's editors have reviewed the source code for "security issues and major policy violations", before deeming it fit for the store. However, that does not automatically mean that the app has also been installed, prior to approval; in most cases Mozilla says this doesn't happen.
However, in the "policies on specific add-on practices" it's clearly stated that "Add-ons that make changes to web content in ways that are non-obvious or difficult to trace by their users" would not be permitted -- an example of a page where the extension infringes upon this policy is Facebook. Another is the Wikipedia page for Gender equality, where only certain words are replaced, like "men" with "Jews" and "women" with "Germans". I've reached out to Mozilla for clarification.
But, surprisingly, Mozilla does not have a policy in place which would prevent extensions that promote Nazism from being approved. Anything goes, as long as it meets the technical criteria. But perhaps it's time to reconsider. After all, Mozilla is a self-proclaimed supporter of equality, isn't it?
Update 1: Mozilla responded, saying that the extension has been removed. At the time of writing this article, the extension's landing page says "This add-on has been disabled by an administrator". A statement will follow.
Update 2:Here comes the statement. "Mozilla reviews and responds expeditiously to reports of abuse. 'Men Kampf' was removed after Mozilla received such reports today and it was determined that the add-on violates our Conditions of Use", says Mozilla director of marketplace and content ecosystem Bertrand Neveux.
As you can see, Mozilla acted swiftly to remove the extension from the Firefox add-ons store, following reports. Meanwhile, the similar Men Kampf for Chrome continues to be available in Chrome Web Store.
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            • Reason a month ago
              The author cites the incredibly tame Wiki page for feminism. Why? because it comes out pretty vanilla, and could even be said to condone Nazism and make it look falsely inclusive rather than act as the intended indictment of real-life feminist rhetoric. Let's see how it looks on an actual feminazi site like Manboobs, etc.
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                • E. Scotty 2 months ago
                  Not a big surprise, the author of this drivel completely missed the irony that a simple extension can take key words from feminist text and show the blatant hate speech it is by putting it into something we all recognize as hate speech. I don't care what feminists want the definition of feminism to mean. It is clear as day when you listen to or read their thoughts: HATRED OF MEN.
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                    • jgmitzen 2 months ago
                      When did misogyny become socially acceptable?!?!?
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                      • John Anderson 2 months ago
                        He should have a problem finding equivalent words. The ideologies are basically the same.
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                          • Sphar > John Anderson 2 months ago
                            Yup, if we replaced the words 'white male' with 'jew' it would be considered hate speech. But it's OK to hate on men! And I can't recall ANYTHING men in power have done for men not in power. SUBJECT WOMEN TO THE DRAFT and we'll talk EQUALITY!
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                              • Filthy Liar > John Anderson 2 months ago
                                You realize this would work with any minority trying to achieve equal status?
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                                  • Thorium . > Filthy Liar 2 months ago
                                    Women outnumber men in the West, dipshit. That would make women the majority and men the minority.
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                                      • Filthy Liar > Thorium . 2 months ago
                                        It's adorable that you think numerical superiority translates to not a minority status.
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                                          • DumbFurfag > Filthy Liar a month ago
                                            Women are the majority in superior education.
                                            Unmarried women without children in average make more money than unmarried men without children.
                                            Women have quotas, affirmative action (basically, discrimination against men) programmes and all-women shortlists designed to get them an easy ride into high-earning jobs and leadership positions. Not to mention all the money-wasting programmes of getting women into STEM fields, even though they are not interested. And yet there are no quotas for getting women in the less fancy all male jobs like road maintenance, construction work, garbage disposal, pest control etc. Nobody cares about gender inequality there. Women usually complain about men always being in leading positions (because men are highly competitive by nature and WANT those positions) but they ignore all the men working in crappy, dangerous and hard jobs.
                                            Women make up almost none of the workplace accidents, it's almost entirely men that get mangled or killed. Every work-hour a man loses his life on a construction site in the US.
                                            Women live in average several years longer than men. Even though that was historically not the case, therefore it's not due to biology, but due to workplace stress and wear. Also they are allowed to retire earlier.
                                            Women are only a small percentage of the homeless people. Homelessness disproportionately affects men.
                                            It's socially acceptable for women to be stay-at-home parents. Not so much for men, even though we'd like to. And then when we spend too much time working in order to put food on the table so that the family can thrive, we get shit on for not spending enough time with the family, and not being "loving" enough even though it's obvious you can't be in two places at the same time.
                                            Women get default custody in a divorce, unless they are proven to be an unfit parent.
                                            Women are the primary recipients of alimony (read: leeching off money from their ex-husband for personal reasons, the historical reasons for alimony are irrelevant in a culture with equal opportunity to work) .
                                            Women aren't subject to the draft. If war breaks out, guess what gender is going to die in greater numbers! Yay for male privilege of being forced to fight and be killed in a war we never really had anything to do with.
                                            Women have shelters for victims of domestic violence everywhere, men have only a handful of them in the entire world, in spite of being almost as likely to be a victim of domestic violence. In fact women instigate most of the violence, hitting first in about 70% of the cases (but usually getting their asses handed to them, because men have more upper body strength due to biological differences). See Erin Pizzey's work in this field.
                                            Women have the law on their side. They can get a restraining order against any man at any time with just one phonecall and kick a guy out of his own home. They are also automatically assumed to be the victim, even if they are the aggressor (Duluth domestic violence model).
                                            Furthermore social experiments have shown that men will usually
                                            interfere when a man beats a woman in the public. But no man and no woman even lifted a damn finger when a woman beat a man in public.
                                            Women have the right to corporal integrity. Female genital mutilation is banned in most, if not all, western countries. Men don't . Young baby boys get their genitals mutilated on a daily basis in a disgusting practice called "circumcision".
                                            Women have a wide assortment of contraceptives to their disposal. All kinds of pills and devices. Men don't have a commercially available male pill, even though there are functional prototypes, and feminists are strongly opposing our right to contraceptives (why?). We only have the condom and that's it.
                                            Women have the right to an abortion. They can not be mothers if they wish to do so. Men don't have an equivalent. We can't choose to not be a father. In this case I'm referring to financial abortion, because it's generally irrelevant if the woman decides to carry the pregnancy to term or not.
                                            Women have the educational system tailored towards their needs. Boys are not only lagging behind with their grades and lacking male role models in education (this is actually very important) but they are overdiagnosed with ADHD and crap like that, and medicated (Ritalin etc) just to stay quiet in class, in spite of boys having a more active, hands-on, rowdy approach to learning by default.
                                            Men's spaces are encroached upon and destroyed in our culture, while female spaces are just ok. You can't have "no girls allowed" anymore without risking a lawsuit and "boys' club" is almost a pejorative term. Even though it's a necessity for men to have their own space and interact freely with other men as they would not in the presence of a female person.
                                            Criminal women get sentenced less often and get less jail time than men, even if the circumstances of the crime are identical. And not only that, but we have feminist proposals to abolish women's prisons.
                                            Female pedophiles abusing boys will get less media and societal condemnation than male pedophiles abusing girls... in spite of it being scientifically proven that a vicious abuse cycle is more likely in boys abused by females, than all other cases. Not only that, but there have been cases in the media where female on male child abuse was referred to as "relationship" and the child called "lucky to be able to screw his female teacher". Also this is why we don't have many much-needed male teachers, they are afraid of being called a pedo and have their lives ruined if some twat has a grudge.
                                            Women keep complaining about feeling unsafe on the streets, even though it's MEN who are more likely to get assaulted, mugged, beaten, shot in the streets.
                                            Women have rape issues addressed quickly, and even blown out of proportion by several orders of magnitude. Men's silent rape epidemic in prison almost never gets talked about.
                                            Drunk men are always assumed to be abusers, drunk women have always the benefit of being allowed to claim victim status. False rape accusations are rampant (see the study on the US airforce base about signs of false accusations, applying the model to all accusations, up to 60% of rape claims might be bogus).
                                            Women can get their tits out in "slutwalks" and call it empowering. Men getting their cock out to take a whiz in a bush is grounds for arrest for indecent exposure.
                                            Women have a monopoly on gender academic studies. You usually can't discuss male gender issues outside the academic feminist framework, and even just saying that you are a non-feminist or god-forbid anti-feminist is grounds for having your reputation ruined, being quotemined for the worst they can come up with (see the protests of ex-feminist Warren Farrel) and of course being protested.
                                            Even just "being male" is being demonized nowadays (every time you hear feminists saying "toxic masculinity"). And I've met quite a few idiots who think that the world would be better off if men just acted "less male" (never mind it was the same maleness that advanced civilization and achieved our current industrial and technological development).
                                            Do I even need to continue?
                                            We men have a minority status. Not only in numbers, but also as far as our gender identity and human rights go.
                                            Women, check your fucking privilege.
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                                            • Billy > Filthy Liar a month ago
                                              Its not very adorable that you think that being in a minority comes with having tits and having nothing dangling between the legs. Do you think the middle class women who comprise most of feminism are disadvantaged in relation to the millions of poor, often unemployed and/or mentally ill men they would regard as the privileged?
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                                                • Deansdale > Filthy Liar a month ago
                                                  It's mindboggling how you think the majority is the minority because feminism. Words used to have a meaning. Not anymore.
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                                            • DavidByron 2 months ago
                                              Is it actually possible that this feminist is so stupid, he doesn't know he's being made fun of?
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                                                  • Guy_Montag451 2 months ago
                                                    "We're not Nazis! How dare you! We ban your freedom to compare or criticize our movement!"
                                                    Yeah okay Gobbels.
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                                                      • Deborah Hitchens > Guy_Montag451 2 months ago
                                                        Saudi Arabia, where women are held hostage, to produce more males, in a male run totalitarian state, good enough to serve them food but not born good enough, to sit at the table with them .. the very first apartheid men instigated was the one they established against the female of the species ..
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                                                        • DumbFurfag > Deborah Hitchens a month ago
                                                          Go tell that to the people in Saudi Arabia.
                                                          Women have special privileges under western law that men don't have (see my other post in the thread above for a very detailed list), we don't need to hear this shit, because we're not responsible for what some other men are doing in some other culture we men fear almost as much as you do (though for different reasons, cause they are totalitarian religious fanatics that hate freedom of speech and chop people's hands and feet off).
                                                          And even though I BET that Paul Elam quote is badly taken out of context, you are right now right here proving to be exactly what he might have not even intended to claim, you subhuman parasite.
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                                                            • Guy_Montag451 > Deborah Hitchens 2 months ago
                                                              So stop buying their oil and stop supporting a president who considers them a close ally.
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                                                                • Deborah Hitchens > Guy_Montag451 2 months ago
                                                                  Yeah I did suggest to congress that they create an entire army made up of women and other pro feminists, and fully arm them so they can invade Saudi Arabia, to free the women and the homosexuals who are caged in there and liberate them from the male supremacy tyranny they live under and once that is done, they can then focus on invading other anti female cultures and free them all from male tyranny, but congress seemed to get very nervous at the very thought of it.. Uhh OMG!! What?.. masses of armed females and pro feminists running about over throwing male supremacy ideologies .. we can't tolerate that, we might be next on their list .. and so they said no.. and said sorry but women will just have to wait for their freedom, but how long women will have to wait for their freedom, they didn't say.. how curious .. not.
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                                                                  • Ponce > Guy_Montag451 2 months ago
                                                                    All administrations have always considered Saudi Arabia a close ally and here you are trying to imply that this administration has been the only one. If you think that most Americans will agree with your claim then you are a fool. Who the hell opened the can for you to get out?... you are one bad worm.
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                                                                      • Deborah Hitchens > Ponce 2 months ago
                                                                        Who created the can and then closed the lid on it tightly shut?
                                                                        "The gentleman's agreement"
                                                                        Women are not obligated to thank men who's predecessors robbed women blind and who only returned what was stolen in the first place and returned it reluctantly, begrudgingly and in dribs and drabs and still quite obviously have yet to return it all.
                                                                        We declare our right on this earth, to be regarded a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, and we will never accept anything less ever again.
                                                                        Culture and religion will not be be allowed to continue to block proposals to eliminate and prevent violence against females.
                                                                        The male supremacist has taken for granted that his idea he enforced that there should be a toleration to dispose of the female potential so he can elevate his own significance via Male run Totalitarian regimes is male oppression, male arrogance and male self importance in the extreme.
                                                                        The male supremacist through this ideology of male self worship, has managed to stifle and suffocate the female and all her potential, intellectually, culturally, and socially and with malice a forethought, with an aim in mind of a victory in one-upmanship on the other half of the human race.
                                                                        He has a desire to leap up and down and smash the female in and then declare from the roof tops, he's achieved a victory for himself and men.
                                                                        Feminism is about freeing women, from men's oppression, end of story.
                                                                        We will not ignore the tyranny of the social construction.
                                                                        Beliefs and attitudes embody the system of patriarchy that dictates that leadership is a man’s territory = Oppressive and intolerant
                                                                        The current mass slaughter of the female across the world, 45 Million is just the tip of the iceberg, and has any male been punished for that yet?
                                                                        Those males are exacting a punishment on the female of the species, for being born the wrong gender in a culture that is anti female, that doesn't recognise her value. In this type of culture the male deems himself the most valuable of all & all due to an idea promoted by himself. The collusion of males, who using their Propaganda to belittle the image of the female, seek to make it so.
                                                                        We are not intending to tolerate this behaviour, our intentions are to rid the world of it and we don't intend to accept anything less.
                                                                        There is no place for male supremacists in a democracy, except out the door, and they are going out of that fucking door, sooner rather than later.
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                                                                        • DumbFurfag > Deborah Hitchens a month ago
                                                                          >>Women are not obligated to thank men who's predecessors robbed women blind and who only returned what was stolen in the first place and returned it reluctantly
                                                                          What alternate dimension are you coming from?
                                                                          Back in the day when there were no workplace safety standards and no health insurance policies men did a lot of hard backbreaking work so that women don't have to do the same and could lead a better life and only attend to household matters and raising children.
                                                                          Of course raising children wasn't an easy job either when you had 7-8 of them, but a housewife wouldn't risk end up getting mangled by an unsafe machinery or crushed by a heavy crate during loading.
                                                                          Also there needed to be an incentive to make men willing to take up these dangerous tasks. It came with perks such as being able to tell a woman to get back in the kitchen. That's why a traditional role of protector and provider worked in those hard days. And no, domestic violence was punishable even then, but would usually be fines (or public whippings) because jailing the man would mean the entire family loses their source of income. Men were on the other hand criminally responsible for their wives' crimes, and yes, they could be punished for that.
                                                                          As for the vote, it was tied to military service and it expanded anyway. First land owners could vote. Then people who were subject to the draft. Then it was expanded to military nurses and other women serving in the army etc. With or without the Suffragettes (who were violent racist bitches anyway) there was the Suffragist movement who wanted votes for EVERYONE. Many women back then didn't even want the vote (see the British polls) because they feared they would have to serve in the army just like the men or would lose other female privileges. And besides, it didn't really matter anyway because there were ad campaigns along the lines of "tell your husband to vote for X, because reasons", because you may or may not be surprised, but women weren't as oppressed as you might think they were and actually had a say in a number of things (the Declaration of Sentiments, the tender years doctrine, the Abolitionist movement, the alcohol prohibition during the 20's-30's).
                                                                          Also certain restrictions on women had very good reasons. For example women needing a male co-signer for transactions was the way it was BECAUSE WOMEN WERE NOT FINANCIALLY ACCOUNTABLE AT THE TIME BECAUSE NO JUDGE WOULD PROSECUTE THEM, and people who lent money or sold properties were not stupid and had to find a way to make the male relatives of the women accountable.
                                                                          In other words, the history is much more complicated than you like to think, the feminists lied to you, back then everybody had a shit time, and you sitting here and talking trash about men in general is fucking disgusting.
                                                                          And don't pick on men's rights activists anymore, you started the fight by screwing men over and denying our own gender liberation movement, which is starting now, after being repressed for decades. And MRAs are generally from what I've seen egalitarian anyway. They only seek to give men the same de-facto legal rights (they are on paper, but not in practice) and would at most want to strip you of your special privileges... and you women are privileged. By your own definition PRIVILEGE IS INVISIBLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE IT. So suck it up, man up (or woman up) and pay up what YOU owe.
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                                                                  • Thorium . 2 months ago
                                                                    How very pathetic (on the part of Mozilla and Feminists). Nothing says 'we support and encourage discussion' than immediately banning something that exposes the hateful elements within your ideology.
                                                                    Too bad for them, then, that this is the internet. The add-on will live-on in different forms; it will proliferate, and there's fuck all they can do about it.
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