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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday August 25 2015, @07:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-long-painful-decline-of-a-once-proud-open-source-project dept.

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has threatened to fire an anonymous person complaining about "social justice bullies" at Mozilla on Reddit, should the person be discovered to be an employee.

Chris Beard stated that the Reddit user aoiyama's complaints "crossed the line" in a series of posts about the women in the company, including recently departed community organizer Christie Koehler. In a series of tweets earlier this month, Koehler complained about Mozilla's lack of diversity in the workplace and its failure to address accessibility issues.

The Reddit user's comments:

"Frankly everyone was glad to see the back of Christie Koehler. She was batshit insane and permanently offended at everything," the user wrote. "When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief." It was that remark that appeared to trigger Beard's warning today. "When I talk about crossing the line from criticism to hate speech, I'm talking about when you start saying 'someone's kind doesn't belong here, and we'll all be happy when they're gone.'"


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:58PM (#227733)

    "the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists"
    Of course it isn't about anything practical. It is just about PR but the comment wasn't restricted to just one person. I still fail to see the responsibility of Mozilla to shed light on the anonymous internet complaint about Koehler.

  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Friday August 28 2015, @02:57AM

    by Francis (5544) on Friday August 28 2015, @02:57AM (#228822)

    If they're going to go public with a threat to fire the person if the person is an employee, then they do need to shed some light on it. Otherwise people are going to talk and it looks like more of the usual SJW bullying of people that don't agree.

    And what makes you think that the people the person is referring to don't fit that description? Or at least resemble it?