On Thursday, Mozilla, the company behind the web-browser Firefox, forced CEO
Brendan Eich to resign over private contributions he made in 2008 to
California's Prop 8, which stated that marriage was between a man and a woman. Boycott FireFox Web Software Mozilla FireFox has queer ideas. The point is this: Firefox is now a company that censors. Mozilla decided last week to force the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich after dating company OkCupid blocked all traffic from Mozilla Firefox, stating that Eich was one of their “enemies” for his $1,000 2008 donation to the Proposition 8 campaign for traditional marriage. Eich had never discriminated against a gay person; Mozilla had never discriminated against a gay person. Nonetheless, he had to be shamed and publicly scourged from his position by the totalitarian left – a scourging approved by many in the gay rights movement more focused on power politics than free speech and privacy.
Mozilla’s decision to cave to OkCupid’s pressure represents a neo-McCarthyism that people who love freedom should shun. So over the next several hours, we will be showing you what internet censorship looks like, up close and personal. Because if you think that censorship will stop with Brendan Eich, you’re not looking closely enough.
No comments:
Post a Comment