Mozilla是最新一個誤入Gamergate的主要群體，它剛剛意識到這是一個糟糕的想法。正如《每日點滴》今天早些時候報道的那樣，《開放標準》——基金會最近推出的線上雜誌——在過去的幾天裡，莫名其妙地調解了反對社會進步主義的“消費者起義”和所謂的影片遊戲中的倫理違背。在發表了教育作家奧黛麗·沃特斯的一篇批評文章之後，開放標準組織發現自己成為了Gamergate支持者的焦點，他們認為自己受到了不公平的評價，包括Eron Gjoni，他用一篇關於遊戲開發者Zoe Quinn的憤怒文章煽動了這場運動。作為後續行動，它發表了一篇對Gamergate表示同情的反駁（來自一位澄清她在這個問題上“中立”的作家），併發表了一系列關於其決定的防禦性推文，稱它呼籲“更多的聲音”和“更多的行動”。就連Firefox推特的feed也參與了辯論，捍衛Gamergate是“各方都應該關註的重要問題”

今天，Mozilla決定，在一場網路風暴中，如果不瞭解上下文，可能是不明智的。《開放標準報》在其網站上發表了一份含糊的道歉宣告，稱其“助長了一場不會產生積極結果的對話”，但“不支援叫停我們不同意的人”，在這種情況下，這顯然是Gamergate的支持者。Firefox的Twitter feed也發表了類似的宣告，稱開放標準或Firefox討論“Gamergate作為一個話題是沒有意義的”。

但Mozilla執行主席米切爾·貝克（Mitchell Baker）最近發給該公司員工的一封電子郵件卻遭到了批評她寫道：“最近在《開放標準》（openstandard）上發表的關於遊戲機（Gamergate）的評論文章是一個錯誤，再加上我們的後續行動。”。

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在今年早些時候經歷了一場更大的政治動蕩，當時執行長布倫丹•艾奇（Brendan Eich）在不到兩周的時間後辭職，原因是加州反對同性婚姻的1000美元捐款引發了**；當時，貝克說，Mozilla“為自己能堅持一個不同的標準而感到自豪，而在過去的一週裡，我們沒有達到這個標準。”開放標準只有幾周的歷史，正如Firefox Twitter收購案所顯示的，它仍然與Mozilla有著密切的聯絡，這就奠定了Adobe和英特爾在過去幾個月裡的基礎：在一場爭論中糾纏在一起的爭論主要是一系列的叫喊比賽和準軍事**“行動”。你至少應該非常謹慎地對待它——Mozilla承認這顯然沒有發生。

美國東部時間11月5日下午1:20更新：添加了來自Firefox的Twitter宣告和關於Eich辭職的資訊，以及來自開放標準反駁文章作者的宣告。