Posted on 04/05/2014 7:55:25 AM PDT by NYer
Mitchell Baker, executive chair of Mozilla, announced on the company’s blog that Brendan Eich, former Mozilla CEO has stepped down “for Mozilla and our community.” His sin: contributing $1000 in 2008 in support of California’s Prop 8, which upheld traditional marriage.
Now, Mozilla is a company that takes great pride in their – ahem – tolerance and open-mindedness. Really.
Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.
Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla supports equality for all.
Yet it’s clear that something in the corporate climate of Mozilla made it impossible for Eich to continue in his job. And that something is bigotry, plain and simple. Here is Robert P. George:
Mozilla has now made its employment policy clear.
No Catholics need apply.
Or Evangelical Christians.
Or Eastern Orthodox.
Or Orthodox Jews.
Or Mormons.
Or Muslims.
Unless, that is, you are the “right kind” of Catholic, Evangelical, Eastern Orthodox Christian, observant Jew, Mormon, or Muslim, namely, the kind who believes your religious or philosophical tradition is wrong about the nature of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and the view now dominant among secular elites is correct. In that case, Mozilla will consider you morally worthy to work for them. Or maybe you can work for them even if you do happen to believe (or should I say “believe”) your faith’s teaching—so long as you keep your mouth shut about it: “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Once Eich’s contribution was made known, it took Mozilla only a week to toss him, “Eich’s head as a trophy on their wall.”
Back on the Mozilla blog, Mitchell says, “While painful, the events of the last week show exactly why we need the web. So all of us can engage freely in the tough conversations we need to make the world better,” yet comments are closed. It’s tough to engage freely in conversation when you can’t talk.
Mozilla has made it clear: all are welcome, so long as they agree with us. Bigotry and bullying have become their new corporate principles.
Read “What Mozilla Means” at First Things.
I removed FireFox on all of my computers yesterday.
fagfox gone here too.
Which browser are you using?
“Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.”
Classic leftist dodge. Make something out to be’hard’ or ‘personal’ when you don’t want to look at a particular bit of truth.
These freaks and deviants have gone far by taking ‘control’ of the argument. They’ve taken over the Bridge, so to speak, now Lets see where it gets them.
I removed Firefox from my Windows systems computers but was recently gifted with a new (to me - recycled) Mac. I cannot get the FF icon to STAY in the trash bin. Tried over and over.
Firefox is only in the Apps folder (not Finder) on my machine. Any suggestions? I’m not only new to Mac but slow on tech stuff altogether.
There are others at Mozilla that gave support to Prop 8 and the Gay Gestapo will out them too since it seems the YES gave the contributor list to Gay groups.
Eich needs to start a new browser company to compete with the gaystapo controlling Mozilla.
> These freaks and deviants have gone far by taking ‘control’ of the argument. They’ve taken over the Bridge, so to speak, now Lets see where it gets them.
Dynamite is good for bridges...
I'm sticking with Mozilla.
I’d switch except all the browsers I know of are just as likely to bow before their homosexual masters as Mozilla. It would be interesting, however, if muslim countries banned Firefox...
Do the Chinese have a strong pro-homosexual slant?
YES should be IRS
Conservative is, like it or not, a political term.
Normal is, well, normal.
I have a mac and had no problem. First I took the App from the App folder and dragged it to the trash can. Then I took the Icon from the dock and dragged it to the trash can.
Wish I’d thought of keeping my bookmarks first, but oh well.
It seems most of these browsers still have a “FireFox” format or however it’s called and it would make sense that they’d pay a sort of royalty or something to FireFox.
I removed Firefox from my Windows systems computers but was recently gifted with a new (to me - recycled) Mac. I cannot get the FF icon to STAY in the trash bin. Tried over and over.
Firefox is only in the Apps folder (not Finder) on my machine. Any suggestions? I’m not only new to Mac but slow on tech stuff altogether.
Sorry if this is a dup. See above.
Unfortunately in my haste to get rid of FF, I also deleted ‘personal info’ and bookmarks.
I can’t get the FF icon from either the Apps folder OR the dock to STAY in the trash. It drags there but pops right back to where it was.
OPERA: I doubt a company in NORWAY is very conservative. They also use Chrome as their base, and are funded via Google.
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