Their branding has changed, but their ideology remains the same.
Posted on 04/10/2014 8:47:05 AM PDT by billorites
Of all the cheap thrills that life affords, self-righteousness is one of the grossest: A moment on the lips, forever on the hips, with a moral weight for which the only relief is repentance.
The online dating site OkCupid should be feeling the bloat right now. Their site played a role in last week's purge of Mozilla's Brendan Eich, when they hectored visitors to stop using Firefox because Eich donated money to a 2008 California referendum in favor of reserving marriage for a man and woman. Ranted OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder : "Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure."
Uh huh. It will be more of a lasting benefit to society to repudiate OkCupid's marketing stunt than it ever was to hound Mr. Eich from his job. Hampton Catlin, a noted developer who had criticized Mozilla, has already publicly regretted the outcome. Andrew Sullivan, a blogger and pioneering same-sex marriage campaigner, pronounced his disgust with the intolerance shown Mr. Eich.
Barry Diller, whose company owns OkCupid, tells us: "I think it's more than unfortunate—private political action is no one's business, and to make it a public issue is wrong."
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All this is complicated, which the priggish posturing of OkCupid was not. It's a cliché to observe that cowards and bullies are often the same, a wisdom learned from the Andy Griffith Show. And the worst kind of cowardly bully is the one who clothes his aggression toward others in sanctimony—though, until last week, we would have put gay-marriage advocates at the very bottom of any list of issue advocates who exhibit this tendency. Gay marriage has made remarkably swift progress by proposing to increase the world's stock of happiness rather than reduce it.
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leftists NEVER leave politics at the door. Check where those corporations put their charitable giving for one example
he had no support on the board - they wanted him gone
I’m talking about the board room door. Charitable giving is not a corporate responsibility.
use duckduckgo instead
everything is politics to the left
Their branding has changed, but their ideology remains the same.
“I don’t think you have to uninstall FF to show your disapproval. You can probably just switch the default search engine or not use Google at all from FF. Bye Bye revenue stream.”
They have similar revenue sharing deals with the other major search engines. It’s just that google is where they make the most money.
Well that's a rather cowardly position(s) to take.
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