Mozilla是最新一个误入Gamergate的主要群体，它刚刚意识到这是一个糟糕的想法。正如《每日点滴》今天早些时候报道的那样，《开放标准》——基金会最近推出的在线杂志——在过去的几天里，莫名其妙地调解了反对社会进步主义的“消费者起义”和所谓的视频游戏中的伦理违背。在发表了教育作家奥黛丽·沃特斯的一篇批评文章之后，开放标准组织发现自己成为了Gamergate支持者的焦点，他们认为自己受到了不公平的评价，包括Eron Gjoni，他用一篇关于游戏开发者Zoe Quinn的愤怒文章煽动了这场运动。作为后续行动，它发表了一篇对Gamergate表示同情的反驳（来自一位澄清她在这个问题上“中立”的作家），并发表了一系列关于其决定的防御性推文，称它呼吁“更多的声音”和“更多的行动”。就连Firefox推特的feed也参与了辩论，捍卫Gamergate是“各方都应该关注的重要问题”

今天，Mozilla决定，在一场网络风暴中，如果不了解上下文，可能是不明智的。《开放标准报》在其网站上发表了一份含糊的道歉声明，称其“助长了一场不会产生积极结果的对话”，但“不支持叫停我们不同意的人”，在这种情况下，这显然是Gamergate的支持者。Firefox的Twitter feed也发表了类似的声明，称开放标准或Firefox讨论“Gamergate作为一个话题是没有意义的”。

但Mozilla执行主席米切尔·贝克（Mitchell Baker）最近发给该公司员工的一封电子邮件却遭到了批评她写道：“最近在《开放标准》（openstandard）上发表的关于游戏机（Gamergate）的评论文章是一个错误，再加上我们的后续行动。”。

Dear Mozillians,

As the computing environment and online life are changing, Mozilla is changing too. Sometimes this involves moving into new areas, and working with content and information as well as code and products like Firefox and Firefox OS.

It's hard to do. We are making mistakes. Recent opinion pieces published in The Open Standard about #Gamergate are a mistake, compounded by our follow-up acti***.

The editorial intent of The Open Standard is to explore the world of open collaboration. It is not intended to represent Mozilla's opinion, but to be an independent platform where we invite people to have discussi*** around timely topics related to the impact of open systems. #Gamergate as a topic does not make sense for The Open Standard. As a new publication, we are applying our editorial guidelines for the first time. In addition, it's clear that our branding and positioning have not clearly established The Open Standard and Mozilla as separate entities, and we need to do work on that too.

Mozilla needs to do new things, and to empower people to work in new areas. Our standard model is a large delegation of authority. However, we need to stop making mistakes. They are harmful to all the people involved. They suggest Mozilla has an opinion which we don't. They damage our sense of what Mozilla is. They are unfair to all the people who work so hard to build a better vision of tomorrow. And offensive to those concerned about key issues of equality, inclusion and safety.

My take away from this is that our model of distributed authority needs attention. We need to do better here.

The entire leadership team, including me, will be turning our attention to this. We can't stop doing new things. We have to do better.

Mitchell

Mozilla在今年早些时候经历了一场更大的政治动荡，当时首席执行官布伦丹•艾奇（Brendan Eich）在不到两周的时间后辞职，原因是加州反对同性婚姻的1000美元捐款引发了**；当时，贝克说，Mozilla“为自己能坚持一个不同的标准而感到自豪，而在过去的一周里，我们没有达到这个标准。”开放标准只有几周的历史，正如Firefox Twitter收购案所显示的，它仍然与Mozilla有着密切的联系，这就奠定了Adobe和英特尔在过去几个月里的基础：在一场争论中纠缠在一起的争论主要是一系列的叫喊比赛和准军事**“行动”。你至少应该非常谨慎地对待它——Mozilla承认这显然没有发生。

美国东部时间11月5日下午1:20更新：添加了来自Firefox的Twitter声明和关于Eich辞职的信息，以及来自开放标准反驳文章作者的声明。