RedState Follows TruthRevolt's Lead, Blocks Users of Firefox

Truth Revolt ^ | 4/8/2014 | Jeremy Boreing

[markomalley]

On Tuesday the powerful conservative website RedState joined the movement - started last Thursday by this publication - to protest Mozilla's decision to force out its CEO Brendan Eich over a personal donation he made over six years ago to a pro-traditional marriage campaign by blocking users of the company's hit web-browser Firefox. 

Visitors to the site were re-directed to a landing page where they were informed that RedState found itself in conflict with the values of Mozilla and suggesting other alternative browsers. 

"... we wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real, and if you haven’t been Made to Care yet, you will be soon."

Under the leadership of the formidable Erick Erickson, RedState is a leader in the conservative movement, and their action against Firefox will be felt at Mozilla. RedState's move comes on the same day that another conservative powerhouse, Dennis Prager, joined the call for a boycott of the company. 

TruthRevolt's original decision to block Firefox users was designed to mirror the effort by the dating site OkCupid, whose declaration that Eich and all opponents of gay marriage are their "enemies" led directly to Mozilla's decision to force Eich out.  While the effort helped lead to the worst customer feedback in Mozilla's history, no apology has been made for the company's handling of the situation. 

You can add your voice to the protest by signing our petition here. 

[Deagle]

You seem to be confusing Conservative with computer programs or something... Beliefs are NOT computer related, that comes from beliefs...

Being computer related has no direct connection but I’d agree that today, seems that most ideas from the liberal community seem to be from the liberal groups. Could be that they only get recognition when they are “Liberal” but who knows? Self perpetuation it seems...

No is the answer to most of your questions but of course that will not stand, media involvement unfortunately seems to have final say these days.

Hollywood does seem to have greater influence these days than Congress.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

It also blocks PaleMoon, which is not Mozilla but shares a lot of coding. Thanks...

I use Pale Moon and just went to Redstate. Even read the article about how they blocked Firefox.

[Mr Rogers]

“Google’s intention, as expressed in the developer documentation, was that Chromium would be the name of the open source project and that the final product name would be Chrome; however other developers have taken the Chromium code and released versions under the Chromium name.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29

Who do you think funds Chromium?

[Mr Rogers]

Try going to http://orbusmax.com/firefox.html, which is still blocking Firefox. It blocks PaleMoon also.

[steve86]

Who do you think funds Chromium?

Whoever feels like doing so. Anyone qualified may contribute development time to Chromium. It is not under Google's control. You can fork off source at any time and customize it. Chromium is to Chrome as Pale Moon is to Firefox.

[steve86]

I was able to load orbusmax from Firefox simply by changing the user agent to IE 8.

[adorno]

I just moved all of my bookmarks from FF to IE11.

I’d never really left IE, but, I had been using FF for about 98% of the time. Now, I’m pleasantly surprised about how much faster IE11 is, and how nice it looks compared to FF.

I’ll probably be using FF for the next couple of days, just to make sure I’m not leaving anything behind, then, I’ll be gone from FF forever.

[steve86]

I just moved all of my bookmarks from FF to IE11.

Microsoft is about as pro queer marriage as can be. Did everything possible here in Washington State, along with Amazon, to get the fags documented.

[Iron Munro]

So does StreamingRadioGuide.com

It’s a directory of radio stations streaming on the internet

http://streamingradioguide.com/streaming-radio-shows.php

[Monitor]

This is stupid piled on top of more stupid.

You don’t want my traffic, Red State? Okay, you won’t get my traffic, via FF or any other browser.

[Bobalu]

How to Change User Agent String in Mozilla Firefox

https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=iw&ei=JrtEU7u2H-yizAHm4IGoDg&ved=0CAUQqS4oAg#q=Firefox%20change%20user%20agent

[HonkyTonkMan]

Redstate sux - went there once and the articles and posts were weak. Never went back.....no need to.

[aquila48]

“You seem to be confusing Conservative with computer programs or something... Beliefs are NOT computer related, that comes from beliefs...”

You seem to be defensive... I never said what you just said.

I’m merely making a fairly obvious observation. If you disagree with it, please name three prominent software or high tech companies that, by any stretch of the imagination, could be called conservative.

[ari-freedom]

“This accomplishes nothing. “

You’re right. We should all be like Boehner and just cry and cut a deal.

[1_Rain_Drop]

I don’t understand how this Mozilla boycott works.

Gays refuse to use it because one guy is for traditional marriage.
Normal people refuse to use it because one guy for traditional marriage resigned because he didn’t support gays.

So the people who use mozilla now, are they gay or traditional people?

How is one to determine which group has the most impact since both are boycotting. What’s the end purpose? to kill Mozilla? As I see it, both groups are in agreement.

I just don’t see how this boycott is productive.

[ari-freedom]

“Why are there no high tech firms that are conservative leaning?”

Well, mozilla.org USED to be led by one...

[aquila48]

You do have a point... even if he was “closeted” and fully recanted his “conservatism” as he walked the plank.

https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Try going to http://orbusmax.com/firefox.html, which is still blocking Firefox. It blocks PaleMoon also.

I've never been to Orbusmax. Apparently their web developers aren't as good as the developers at Redstate when it comes to knowing the difference between FF and PM. I barely ever go to Redstate. As long as FR doesn't block PM I'll be OK.

[MacNaughton]

17 Why do companies lean left? ...

10/27/1989 - British conservative political commentator and journalist, John O'Sullivan (who currently resides in Decatur, AL), wrote the article below which was published in National Review.

O’Sullivan’s First Law
An eternal truth.

“Robert Michels — as any reader of James Burnham's finest book, The Machiavellians, knows was the author of the Iron Law of Oligarchy. This states that in any organization the permanent officials will gradually obtain such influence that its day-to-day program will increasingly reflect their interests rather than its own stated philosophy. …

… ,O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church. The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels's Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows.

Is there any law which enables us to predict the behavior of right-wing organizations? As it happens, there is: Conquest's Second Law (formulated by the Sovietologist Robert Conquest): The behavior of an organization can best be predicted by assuming it to be controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. Examples: virtually any conservative party anywhere, the Ronald Lauder for Mayor campaign, and the British secret service. That last example is, however, flawed, since the British secret service actually was controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies in the form of Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, et al. In which case, Conquest's Law should have operated to make M1-6 a crack anti-Soviet intelligence service of James Bond proportions. But these are deep waters. …”

[4rcane]

sorry to burst your bubble but every single browser company lean left. All the big tech companies and internet giants lean left