The controversy around Mozilla's new CEO Brendan Eich continues. Eich made a personal $1000 donation to California's Yes on Proposition 8 campaign in 2008. Now, dating site OkCupid has started redirecting Firefox users to a page explaining Eich's views against marriage equality, and asking users to switch to IE, Chrome, or Opera.
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. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it's professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.
Visitors are then provided links to alternative browsers, or they can continue to the site by clicking a hyperlink at the bottom of the page.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday April 01 2014, @11:41AM
this voting push was bought and paid for by NON-california based mormons.
if calif was left alone, I doubt they would have voted so anti-gay. its not fair to say that half the state is filled with hate. I live here and I just don't see that. I see a lot more acceptance and a 'live and let live' attitude.
in fact, the money he donated probably helped the mormons with their anti-freedom cause.
he really should be kicked out of the CEO position. he's not a moral leader and he does not fit into the california way of doing things.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:46PM
If your argument can be countered in voters' minds by someone splashing some money around, perhaps your argument isn't as strong as you thought it was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @03:23PM
More interestingly it seems that the campaigns for and against P8 raised more or less the same amount of cash so I'd say this was a very democratic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:22PM
Since when are votes on official topics decided by the strength of arguments?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 01 2014, @03:20PM
Also, the Jews stabbed us in the back in WW1.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"