{"id":41538,"date":"2014-03-26T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/so-firefox-is-now-officially-anti-gay.html"},"modified":"2014-03-26T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:57:15","slug":"so-firefox-is-now-officially-anti-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/so-firefox-is-now-officially-anti-gay.html","title":{"rendered":"So Firefox is now officially anti-gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Um … no, I don't see it.<\/p>\n

Prop 8 was awful and I'm thrilled it was struck down, but switching away from Firefox and other Mozilla products because the new CEO (formerly CTO, but apparently that didn't draw any protest) donated in favor of Prop 8 strikes me as … a bit over the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I mean, Eric Schmidt contributed to national\u00a0Republican committees (just a scosh more than to the Democrats). In 2010 most individual and Google PAC contributions went to Dems — but they did donate, corporately, to Republicans like Cantor and Boehner (http:\/\/goo.gl\/pl0Zw6<\/a>). Google's also given money to Heritage Action, \u00a0the Federalist Society, ALEC, CATO, and Ted Cruz. (http:\/\/goo.gl\/R99VFB<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I'll assume Microsoft might be guilty of the same "sins."<\/p>\n

Now, one might argue that Eich's donation directly to Prop 8 (whatever his motivation in doing so) was a direct personal investment in a specific awful cause, vs Google's political glad-handing (or, as Google reps suggest, giving money to individuals and groups who they say support "what\u2019s good for an open Internet").\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that's just it. Eich's donation doesn't reflect Mozilla policy. And whether or not you'd be interested in inviting him over for dinner, a specific donation by someone in a single campaign, said someone later becoming the CEO of a company, doesn't seem to me to be the most critical reason to boycott said company.<\/p>\n

I don't use Firefox myself these days, but if I were tempted to, I don't myself see this as a reason to question whether I should.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Newly-Appointed Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Donated To Prop 8 Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Um … no, I don't see it. Prop 8 was awful and I'm thrilled it was struck down, but switching away from Firefox and other Mozilla products because the new CEO (formerly CTO, but apparently that didn't draw any protest) donated in favor of Prop 8 strikes me as … a bit over the top.\u00a0 … Continue reading “So Firefox is now officially anti-gay?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41633,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/08\/the-intolerance-of-intolerance.html","url_meta":{"origin":41538,"position":0},"title":"The Intolerance of Intolerance","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Apr-14 11:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've started up a post along these lines a half-dozen times. 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