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This Cisco?

"As part of the Great Firewall, beginning in 2003 China started the Golden Shield Project, a massive surveillance and censoring system, the hardware for which was provided by mostly U.S. companies, including Cisco Systems. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall

This is a good alternate front-end to Twitter that also provides RSS feeds: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Interesting but note the article is from 2016.

What do you suggest Mozilla do instead?

Mozilla don't just fund the development of their own products they also fund research [1] and other projects [2].

[1] https://research.mozilla.org/research-grants/ [2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/grants/

In a perfect world Mozilla would be funded by donations. I donate to Mozilla but it's a pittance compared to what they get from Google.

Aside from the technical comments here, "warmly energetic" is an accurate and endearing description.