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OK Cupid Protests Aginst Mozilla CEO

posted by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @11:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the i-guess-they'll-unfriend-mozilla dept.
Sir Finkus and keplr writes:

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.

The page states:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Tuesday April 01 2014, @01:21PM

    by pe1rxq (844) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @01:21PM (#24127) Homepage

    And they are just as wrong....
    Most of them focus on some twisted idea of what is 'natural'.
    Appearantly a mariage is nothing more than producing offspring like rabbits.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:03PM

    by mhajicek (51) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:03PM (#24155)

    Which would put vasectomies, tubiligations(sp?), and any nonprocreating couple in the same category as gay marriage.

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    • (Score: 2) by wjwlsn on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:15PM

      by wjwlsn (171) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:15PM (#24170) Homepage Journal

      Not necessarily. Societally (at least in the US), while married couples with kids get more benefits (e.g., tax breaks) than married couples without kids, they still serve as examples of what "society" deems to be "normal" and "beneficial" and "desirable".

      (And please keep in mind that these are not my beliefs. I'm making these arguments as a contrarian. Some might consider it trolling or flamebait, but my intent is to promote critical thought and discussion.)

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  • (Score: 2) by wjwlsn on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:06PM

    by wjwlsn (171) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @02:06PM (#24156) Homepage Journal

    Most of them... but not all of them. Don't tell me you couldn't any arguments there that weren't somewhat rational. Disagreement is not a valid justification for outright dismissal.

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