RedState Follows TruthRevolt's Lead, Blocks Users of Firefox

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.

This article is published by Truth Revolt. And they are bragging about how great Truth Revolt is. They are patting themselves on the back, publicly. It’s embarrassing.

They blocked Firefox users from their site a couple of days ago, giving the explanation that they were standing in solidarity against the gay lobby.

Now they are bragging that another organization is blocking Firefox from accessing their site, and patting themselves on the back.

So it wasn’t really about standing for real marriage; their decision was simply a cynical act of self-promotion, taking advantage of a timely opportunity before anyone else thought to do so. If they had integrity, they wouldn’t be patting themselves on the back like this.

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

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Change the I.D. string in your configuration. You’ll have to search the help for how to do that. It is probably somewhere in “General” or something like that. I can’t be more specific since browsers vary SO much in the config menus.

You can also enter “about:config” in the location bar, but be VERY CAREFUL mucking about in there.

All you really need to know is that the browser sends the I.D. string and that you can change it.

Good hunting.

You mean you think one person getting fired is more important that faggot ‘marriage’ legalized throughout an entire state? LOL get real.

It's not about 'one person getting fired'. It's about the precedent that it could set. If a company can get away with firing a person for a political agenda, then, it would be justified in firing all others that show a similar agenda.

When it comes to "getting real", fact is that, 'faggot marriage' is already accepted and even legalized in many jurisdictions, and the time to fight the acceptance has probably already passed into history. Democrats alone were not enough to pass the laws that legalized same-sex marriage, which means that, there were enough people on the right of center that moved towards "acceptance". I would never vote for legalizing same-sex marriage, but, there aren't enough of us to stop it, unfortunately. The only consolation that I can think of, is that, it's still not marriage that can naturally produce offspring. It's still "unnatural" in that sense, no matter how many people or politicians or governments try to make it legal.

If they had integrity, they wouldn’t be patting themselves on the back like this.

And if we had any integrity we who be praising them and patting them on the back for taking a stand that might destroy their small company.

Unfortunately, it appears that some here on FR have no reserve of integrity within themselves.

That's OK, WE can stand up for those who stand up for us against the homosexual lobby. Don't worry yourself over this. Crawl back under the bed.

Really? Slinging a personal insult at a FReeper who’s been here for 16 years? Simply because I point out that it’s embarrassing for Truth Revolt to pat themselves on the back over Red State’s decision to block FireFox? Do you not consider such grand self-congratulation to be kinda embarrassing, particularly in this instance?

Here’s another:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3143344/posts

Although there are going to be hundreds of such events in the coming weeks and months, I won’t trouble you with them anymore.

I previously assumed that this was from the Onion! If this is a true representation from Red State then they have lost their way and me permanently! I was (probably still am) a registered user there but have become disappointed with their Republican views (not Conservative, not even Libertarian). It is certainly time to forgo their input altogether if you are expecting a conservative viewpoint.

Just another Republican group that has partaken in the monies offered or the exposure to benefit their personal cause. Good riddance!

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