Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web

The Mozilla Foundation laid disconnected 30 percent of its workforce and wholly eliminated its advocacy and planetary programs divisions, TechCrunch reports. 

While Mozilla is champion known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the genitor of the Mozilla Corporation — describes itself arsenic lasting up “for the wellness of the internet.” With its advocacy and planetary programs divisions gone, its interaction whitethorn beryllium lessened going forward.

“The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to summation agility and interaction arsenic we accelerate our enactment to guarantee a much unfastened and equitable method aboriginal for america all. That unluckily means ending immoderate of the enactment we person historically pursued and eliminating associated roles to bring much absorption going forward,” Brandon Borrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said successful an email to TechCrunch.

This is Mozilla’s second circular of layoffs this year. In February, the Mozilla Corporation laid disconnected astir 60 workers said it would beryllium making a “strategic correction” that would impact involve cutting backmost its enactment connected a Mastodon instance. Mozilla unopen down its virtual 3D level and refocused its efforts connected Firefox and AI. The Mozilla Foundation had astir 120 employees earlier this much caller circular of layoffs, according to TechCrunch.

In an email sent to each employees connected October 30th, Nabhia Syed, the foundation’s enforcement director, said that the advocacy and planetary programs divisions “are nary longer portion of our structure.”

“Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting clip requires laser absorption — and sometimes saying goodbye to the fantabulous enactment that has gotten america this acold due to the fact that it won’t get america to the adjacent peak,” wrote Syed, who antecedently worked arsenic the main enforcement of The Markup, an investigative quality site. “Lofty goals request hard choices.” 

The Mozilla Foundation did not instantly respond to The Verge’s petition for comment.