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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, @09:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @09:02PM (#227784)

    Give up this false narrative that everyone hating moral authoritarians must be "right wing". Plenty of us on the left are sick of these people, too.

    Lol. You are old. You used to be liberal, now you are ossified - a shell of your former ideals you've aged in place and been left behind.

    "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

    Embrace your own truth.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by K_benzoate on Tuesday August 25 2015, @10:25PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Tuesday August 25 2015, @10:25PM (#227820)

    Any policy position you care to name, I probably have a very liberal take on it. The most important one is freedom of expression. The liberal position on Free Speech is this one [youtube.com]--which happens to be anathema to the SJW stance. Authoritarianism is not a socially liberal position, and that's what Social Justice ideology is at the core. It's authoritarian leftism for hipsters, alloyed with misandric 3rd wave feminism and white guilt.

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    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @10:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @10:53PM (#227833)

      > The liberal position on Free Speech is this one [youtube.com]

      You fit right in with the gamergaters and the puppies - posting links to tediously long youtube videos that nobody is going to watch. Its like some kind of porn to you guys and if you had a clue about people you would understand that nobody wants to watch someone else's porn.