Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla CEO
Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla CEO
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- ukit20
I think it's all an example of free speech at work right?
The guy expresses his right to free speech by donating to a cause he supports (and you can bet if he donates $1k to the Prop 8 campaign he obviously feels fairly strongly about it).
Online activists then use their free speech to object to and boycott his appointment as CEO.
Mozilla then exercises their right to fire him as CEO in response.
I don't see what anyone can really object to here, unless you are suggesting we should coerce any of the people above into acting a certain way. Companies are inherently risk averse so it's no surprise a company like Mozilla (headquartered in San Francisco, after all) would be sensitive to the gay rights issue.
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free speech isn't freedom from criticismhereswhatidid
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