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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.'"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @07:03PM
Well, once Mozilla was just like every other tech firm: saturated with people that think emotions are largely irrelevant and UI design ought to be simple, consistent, powerful, and hide nothing from the user. Technical minds being what they are. Now interject people that obsess about race and sex and sexual orientation, things that are irrelevant to rational, technical people. Suddenly it is no longer UI, but UX. Being consistent is being oppressive. Making the user feel incompetent by showing them dozens of configuration options is unacceptable hate speech somehow. And so on it goes.
Crazy, but plausible.