Wednesday, conservative behemoth Breitbart.com joined the battle, begun last Thursday by TruthRevolt and picked up Tuesday by the influential RedState, to use the very functionality of the web itself to expose the danger and absurdity of the censorship tactics employed by OkCupid and Mozilla Firefox that led to the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.

Visitors to Breitbart today will be greeted by stories with huge amounts of redacted data. The effect is a product of JavaScript, a language that makes the web interactive, but also grants broad power to the browser companies, like Mozilla, to censor data on pages. Ironically, Brendan Eich himself was one of the creators of Java.

Of course, this sort of overt censorship has never been employed by Mozilla, but according to Breitbart senior editor and TruthRevolt founder Ben Shapiro, that's not the point:

The point is this: Firefox is now a company that censors. Mozilla decided last week to force the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich after dating company OkCupid blocked all traffic from Mozilla Firefox, stating that Eich was one of their “enemies” for his $1,000 2008 donation to the Proposition 8 campaign for traditional marriage. Eich had never discriminated against a gay person; Mozilla had never discriminated against a gay person. Nonetheless, he had to be shamed and publicly scourged from his position by the totalitarian left – a scourging approved by many in the gay rights movement more focused on power politics than free speech and privacy.

Mozilla may not have censored users of their software yet, but following their actions in destroying a man's career over his personal political speech last week, they have made clear that freedom of speech has a lot to fear from Firefox.