What Mozilla Has Taught Us

American Thinker ^ | 4/7/2014 | Jack Cashill

[markomalley]

“Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan,” wrote Will Oremus, Slate’s senior tech writer in an altogether typical op-ed applauding the sacking of the “bigoted” Brendan Eich for his support of traditional marriage.  “It’s more akin to opposing interracial marriage: It bespeaks a conviction that some people do not deserve the same basic rights as others.”

Last week, Eich could not grovel quite enough to keep his job as CEO of Mozilla, a software enterprise best known for producing the Firefox web browser.  He resigned under pressure after “marriage equality” activists revealed that Eich had donated $1,000 to the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign in California.  Proposition 8, which passed with more than 52 percent of the vote, amended the California constitution to read, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

Distressingly few editorialists came to Eich’s defense.  Like too many others, Oremus made the case that Eich’s forced departure was somehow anomalous: the tech community, being “socially liberal,” has higher standards than the rest of America.  Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker made the same point to justify the sack.  “Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard,” said Baker, “and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it.”

Both Oremus and Mitchell seemed to making the case that yielding to the tech mob’s desire for the head of the “bigot”  – Oremus’s word – somehow elevated the move or at least justified it.  This may be a “different standard” from what we are used to, but there is nothing historically unusual here at all.  Fascist mobs routinely reduce the most decent of opponents to cruel stereotypes and demand their exclusion from polite society.

[I want the USA back]

There is no freedom of speech in the USA. Was. Isn’t.

[MulberryDraw]

Thanks. I wondered too how Mozilla made their money. I rarely use Google and I’ve switched to the Blue Moon browser. The browser switch was easy.

[EricT.]

Mozilla's feedback page has a steady stream of pissed-off people leaving their thoughts on the matter. Most of them are switching browsers. It has set multiple records for negative feedback for several days running.

https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?selected=7d&date_start=2014-03-28

[EBH]

There's a day of reckoning ahead of us, folks, and more and more of us are going to be in a position where gainful employment working for someone else is not going to be a reality.

And this is where it is imperative to be honing your skills and talents. There will be a time when we will NEED to each other's strength.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

the fever pitch will grow until we are required to accept all parts of perverse world.

Pretty soon parents will be thrown in jail in they merely dislike having old homos molest their kids. I'm not joking.

[GBA]

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

-Mike and the Mechanics: Silent Running.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Set up my favorites in MSExplorer for now and deleted MFF from my computers.

Any suggestions for which browser to use where the advert dollars earned aren’t spent punishing non PC execs?

[US_MilitaryRules]

A lot of people have been switching to Blue Moon Browser. It is identical to Firefox but they say FF doesn’t get a penny. I don’t know but I am using it for now.

http://www.palemoon.org/

[The Great RJ]

In the totalitarian society of Orwell's book 1984 holding socially unacceptable thoughts was a crime...thoughtcrime. Eich is guilty of a PC thoughtcrime.