Brendan Eich resigns as Mozilla CEO
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- detritus0
I'm not parroting anything (as I implied, I don't exactly consume a lot of right-wing literature, despite what your presumption tells you), I just don't get why a corporate entity has the right to publicly shame an individual using its extensive reach.
Sure, target the philosophy, make a campaign, fund competing activist groups - just don't name and shame an individual for what is to many people a fairly middle-ground opinion that he espoused many years ago.
The question is not so much 'what happened here?' rather 'Where will this go next?'
- i_monk0
Boycotting is legal and nonviolent, bullying – the repeated use of force or threats of force to coerce – is not legal; thus boycotting ≠ bullying. You're parroting right-wing rhetoric.
- ernexbcn0
This isn't bullying, this is just a lousy job by the board of directors who didn't foresee the shit storm that was coming due to that donation he did in the past.
Executives of such high ranks are scrutinised and stuff like this will show up, that's what simply happened.
- It's probably not the last time we'll see someone/company tagetted for Prop 8-related reasons.i_monk
- ernexbcn0
A person that is willing to pay one thousand bucks out of his pocket to support denying rights to part of the population doesn't deserve to be CEO of anything in my opinion.
- detritus0
I'm not American and I don't watch Fox, and yes - it is bullying.
You or I might not agree with the guy or his views, but whatever his views are, he has a right to them and to support them however he sees [legally] fit.
Going the path this OKCupid lot chose to is no more honourable, no more moral than their target's.
- I mean fine, let the world know - shme him, but it's got fuck all to do with Firefox.detritus
- Doesn't work like that in CEO world. Seen CEO's go for far less. So by the general standard it's a fair kopbabaganush
- i_monk0
As the only gay in the QBN village, I thought the reaction – delete Firefox! boycott! – was disproportionate and placed too much blame on Mozilla (which had nothing to do with Eich's funding). But then I haven't been fighting for equal rights for the past decade+ as gays in the US/California have: Canada lifted the ban on gays in the military when I was 12, and enacted equal marriage laws when I was 25.
The thing is Eich doesn't merely have an opinion, he was working to make/keep his opinion law to the detriment of millions of people at a time when money from out-of-state groups (like the Mormons) was pouring in to fight their chance at equality. $100, $1,000, or $100,000,000 doesn't matter, he chose to fight equal rights for all.
Holding someone accountable for what they've said or done isn't bullying, by the way. Stop watching FOX for your news.
- the "only gay?" drama queen much?monospaced
- ;)monospaced
- i_monk...you summed it up perfectly :) couldn't agree more.exador1
- detritus0
Bleh, I was hoping he'd simply ignore their blather.
I don't agree with his views or his historical efforts to support them, but I agree less with an unrelated concern very publicly bullying someone for their personal views.
As Georges implies, down that path lie bad things.
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Personally, I think they were just trying to score points to compernsate for their own internal grubbiness after the recent Justine ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS’ Sacco disaster (she worked for OKCupid's parent company).
- Weyland0
Let's all boycott Javascript hehe
- #boycottjavascript,
fuck I can't save this message!!!
halp ehehheGeorgesIV - haha ;)
mikotondria3
- #boycottjavascript,
- ukit20
It does seem kind of extreme but I think it comes down to the fact that being CEO is different from other employees. You are representing the company's image, and most companies don't like controversies. Being boycotted or targeted by a campaign is the last thing they want.
- so they are all for acceptance until its something they disagree with, can you see the slippery slope?GeorgesIV
- It's a slippery slope both ways. Suppose he donated to a group fighting inter racial marriage, would you still have a problem with it?youngdesigner
- Is tolerating intolerance an act of tolerance or intolerance?CyBrainX
- GeorgesIV0
and before anyone start with the circlejerk, let me reming you that someone got elected 8 years ago on the platform that a marriage is between a man and a woman, but change his pov when he realize it will help him get reelected 4 years after,
people still have the right to think what they want or intolerance towards other point of view is the new cool thing to do?
- GeorgesIV0
his views on gay marriage, he donated $1000, 8 years ago,
SJW are fuckn modern day segregationist
- youngdesigner
Mozilla's CEO (and inventor of Javascript) resigns over his views on gay marriage.