Ronin13
04-01-2014, 15:00
Popular dating site OkCupid is urging its users to boycott Mozilla (http://www.okcupid.com/), a software collective, over its new CEO’s past support for traditional marriage.Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Mozilla — and the inventor of Javascript programming language — is under fire for a $1,000 donation he made in support of California’s Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot proposition defining marriage as being between one man and one woman, NPR reported (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/31/297342868/the-new-mozilla-ceos-political-past-is-imperiling-his-present?ft=1&f=1001).
While Eich’s donation made headlines and then fizzled back in 2012, his recent CEO appointment brought it back to the forefront, creating debate among Mozilla employees.
That debate, though, has now extended well beyond the company’s walls, with OkCupid, an outside entity, blocking direct access to its dating portal to any user coming through Firefox, Mozilla’s free web browser.
Upon reaching the site, Firefox users are greeted with a letter that takes aim at Eich’s stance on same-sex marriage and urges Firefox users to seek another browser.
“Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples,” the letter reads (https://www.okcupid.com/). “We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.”
OkCupid goes on to say that, though politics aren’t normally “the business of a website,” it believes in the importance of bringing people together, regardless of sexuality.
“If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal,” it reads (https://www.okcupid.com/). “Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company.”
Holding little back, the dating site continued, “Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.”
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More here (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/01/mozillas-new-ceo-under-fire-for-supporting-traditional-marriage-as-okcupid-urges-firefox-users-to-boycott-popular-browser/)
So basically the employees of Mozilla want the guy to lose his job because of his personal beliefs? Real tolerant. Then let's go further and let users of the browser know that a dating site despises the man... Whatever happened to dealing with differing views like a goddamned adult? Instead people want to bitch and moan and call for the CEO of the company they work for to be fired. So the left is all about tolerance, unless you disagree with them. Got it. Anyone else sick of this? I'm not saying that I oppose any form of relationship, and not wanting this to turn into a debate on gay marriage, but more about the simple question "Why can't people just allow there to be differing opinions and leave it at that?"
While Eich’s donation made headlines and then fizzled back in 2012, his recent CEO appointment brought it back to the forefront, creating debate among Mozilla employees.
That debate, though, has now extended well beyond the company’s walls, with OkCupid, an outside entity, blocking direct access to its dating portal to any user coming through Firefox, Mozilla’s free web browser.
Upon reaching the site, Firefox users are greeted with a letter that takes aim at Eich’s stance on same-sex marriage and urges Firefox users to seek another browser.
“Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples,” the letter reads (https://www.okcupid.com/). “We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.”
OkCupid goes on to say that, though politics aren’t normally “the business of a website,” it believes in the importance of bringing people together, regardless of sexuality.
“If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal,” it reads (https://www.okcupid.com/). “Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company.”
Holding little back, the dating site continued, “Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.”
42953
More here (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/01/mozillas-new-ceo-under-fire-for-supporting-traditional-marriage-as-okcupid-urges-firefox-users-to-boycott-popular-browser/)
So basically the employees of Mozilla want the guy to lose his job because of his personal beliefs? Real tolerant. Then let's go further and let users of the browser know that a dating site despises the man... Whatever happened to dealing with differing views like a goddamned adult? Instead people want to bitch and moan and call for the CEO of the company they work for to be fired. So the left is all about tolerance, unless you disagree with them. Got it. Anyone else sick of this? I'm not saying that I oppose any form of relationship, and not wanting this to turn into a debate on gay marriage, but more about the simple question "Why can't people just allow there to be differing opinions and leave it at that?"