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OkCupid takes strong stance against Mozilla and its new CEO
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article published on 31 March, 2014
The online dating site OkCupid has taken a strong stance against Mozilla Firefox, protesting the browser due to new Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's stance against gay marriage.
Eich supported California's Proposition 8 (which banned gay marriage) and even donated to the politicians backing the bill.
OkCupid says it will not stand for intolerance, and that eight percent of the relationships ... [ read the full article ]
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31. March 2014 @ 22:07 |
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Who gives a damn!? the guy isn't allowed to have a personal opinion? The blog post didn't cause trouble towards others! He isn't out to fire people, he was simply focusing on an issue in his own blog stating he was not going to cause problems, and if people felt that he had wronged them in anyway, he wanted to apologize!
I swear, some people are such children!
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31. March 2014 @ 22:27 |
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It seems rather hypocritical and judgmental of OkStupid to be so intolerant of people who don't hold the same views they have. People living in a free society should be able to use what ever browser they want.
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GryphB
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31. March 2014 @ 22:47 |
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Inject OkCupid with Aids and see how they respond.
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xnonsuchx
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1. April 2014 @ 05:31 |
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Originally posted by GryphB:
Inject OkCupid with Aids and see how they respond.
Way to show your ignorance! AIDS is a condition, not a specific disease/infection. That said, there is a difference between individuals in an organization and the organization itself taking certain actions.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 1. April 2014 @ 05:32
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1. April 2014 @ 08:32 |
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Originally posted by WW3:
Who gives a damn!? the guy isn't allowed to have a personal opinion?
But it isn't just about a 'personal opinion', it's using a business to further prejudice.
Anyone can hold whatever personal prejudiced views they like but in our public dealings with each other they have no place...and if you think otherwise then try to imagine it is you on the receiving end.
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1. April 2014 @ 11:22 |
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Originally posted by Interestx:
Originally posted by WW3:
Who gives a damn!? the guy isn't allowed to have a personal opinion?
But it isn't just about a 'personal opinion', it's using a business to further prejudice.
Anyone can hold whatever personal prejudiced views they like but in our public dealings with each other they have no place...and if you think otherwise then try to imagine it is you on the receiving end.
Where did it ever say he used the business to do anything with this??? From all I can see he personally supported these things. Again none of these Nazi "tolerance" folks business. How bullshit is it they aren't tolerant of this guys personal beliefs?
Just my $0.02,
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1. April 2014 @ 13:52 |
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All this uproar about the CEO of Mozilla being intolerant of homosexuals is a bit much. It's not like the company has any policy that discriminates against homosexuals. Mozilla is a software engineering company, a large part of which is volunteer, and all of the backlash aimed at the company overlooks the fact that this is ONE PERSON'S views, not the views of Mozilla. How a CEO feels doesn't effect Firefox, FirefoxOS, or anything else really . . . so there's my rant for the day.
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1. April 2014 @ 16:30 |
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It's not just some political opinion, nimrods, the man's financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "It's just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
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1. April 2014 @ 19:05 |
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I stand by everyone being free to have their own personal views regardless if I agree with them or not, its what makes every last one of us unique individuals. I'm surfing the net with firefox right now and have been for years, Still not finding any references to opposition of Gay Marriage directly related to this piece of software... So guess Ill keep using it, if OK Cupid now wants to be an online Dating Service and a political party so be it, but I don't think they are going to balance success between the both judging their first actions.
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1. April 2014 @ 20:02 |
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Originally posted by nintenut:
It's not just some political opinion, nimrods, the man's financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people.
Precisely, some people just refuse to see that equitable treatment of everybody in public & business life is in all of our interests....one day it might be you that is the target of prejudice, it's bad enough when it's some idiot with private views being obnoxious but business & public life too?
No thanks.
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1. April 2014 @ 20:03 |
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Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
Originally posted by GryphB:
Inject OkCupid with Aids and see how they respond.
Way to show your ignorance! AIDS is a condition, not a specific disease/infection. That said, there is a difference between individuals in an organization and the organization itself taking certain actions.
Obviously you didn't understand that as "virus".
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1. April 2014 @ 21:44 |
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Originally posted by nintenut:
It's not just some political opinion, nimrods, the man's financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "It's just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
Yes, he backed discriminatory policies. However, this has nothing to do with Mozilla. Mozilla, the business entity, did not use its cash to fund the bill, and the CEO did not use Mozilla's money to do it. No matter what one person in the company supports, it does not damn the whole company.
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1. April 2014 @ 21:51 |
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Originally posted by nintenut:
Its not just some political opinion, nimrods, the mans financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "Its just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
Basically what I mean by my previous comment is that OkCupid should not take out their views on Firefox because Mozilla has not done anything to disagree with their views, it was one person who works for Mozilla. I'm not saying it's "just an opinion" I think that is a grotesque oversimplification; what I'm saying is that no matter what someone who works for Mozilla does or says, it does not change Mozilla itself. To use your analogy, there probably are people who would support Jim Crow laws working for Mozilla right this very moment, but that doesn't mean that Mozilla supports that view.
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2. April 2014 @ 01:26 |
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Originally posted by jjmehm:
Originally posted by nintenut:
It's not just some political opinion, nimrods, the man's financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "It's just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
Yes, he backed discriminatory policies. However, this has nothing to do with Mozilla. Mozilla, the business entity, did not use its cash to fund the bill, and the CEO did not use Mozilla's money to do it. No matter what one person in the company supports, it does not damn the whole company.
marriage is a commitment between a man and a woman to spent the rest of there lives together, by allowing 2 males or 2 females to marry each other it changes the whole definition of it.which may be the reason some are against it,personally doesn't affect me as i'm not homosexual.
I don't think people should have to change there personal views cause they run a company,they do need to keep personal lives and professional lives seperate at times , i don't care what mozillas ceo supports or doesn't support im still gonna use it.
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2. April 2014 @ 02:55 |
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Originally posted by jjmehm:
Originally posted by nintenut:
It's not just some political opinion, nimrods, the man's financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "It's just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
Yes, he backed discriminatory policies. However, this has nothing to do with Mozilla. Mozilla, the business entity, did not use its cash to fund the bill, and the CEO did not use Mozilla's money to do it. No matter what one person in the company supports, it does not damn the whole company.
Originally posted by jjmehm:
Originally posted by nintenut:
Its not just some political opinion, nimrods, the mans financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "Its just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
Basically what I mean by my previous comment is that OkCupid should not take out their views on Firefox because Mozilla has not done anything to disagree with their views, it was one person who works for Mozilla. I'm not saying it's "just an opinion" I think that is a grotesque oversimplification; what I'm saying is that no matter what someone who works for Mozilla does or says, it does not change Mozilla itself. To use your analogy, there probably are people who would support Jim Crow laws working for Mozilla right this very moment, but that doesn't mean that Mozilla supports that view.
They've appointed this man as their CEO, the face of their company. Any business done with the company now directly supports him and his bigotry.
Originally posted by xboxdvl2:
Originally posted by jjmehm:
Originally posted by nintenut:
It's not just some political opinion, nimrods, the man's financially backed policy that arbitrarily limits the rights of an entire people. Would you all be singing the old "It's just an opinion" diddy if he backed Jim Crow? "Black people should be kept separate from white people" is just an opinion, after all.
Good on OKCupid, I say.
Yes, he backed discriminatory policies. However, this has nothing to do with Mozilla. Mozilla, the business entity, did not use its cash to fund the bill, and the CEO did not use Mozilla's money to do it. No matter what one person in the company supports, it does not damn the whole company.
marriage is a commitment between a man and a woman to spent the rest of there lives together, by allowing 2 males or 2 females to marry each other it changes the whole definition of it.which may be the reason some are against it,personally doesn't affect me as i'm not homosexual.
I want you to carefully reread what you've just written.
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5. April 2014 @ 07:37 |
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OKCupid's sense of moral superiority is rather surprising given that a "60 Minutes" report a few weeks ago identified them as gathering a great deal of information about its customers and then sending that info to data brokers. This includes all kinds of personal info that people submit to find prospective dates, including sexual orientation.
See http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-data-...evolution-alma/ starting at 10:50 minutes.
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