In a post at Mozilla’s official blog, executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker confirmed the news with an unequivocal apology on the company’s behalf. “Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it,” Baker wrote. “We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better.”
The action comes days after dating site OKCupid became the most vocal opponent of Eich’s hiring. Mozilla offered repeated statements about LGBT inclusivity within the company over the past two weeks, but those never came with a specific response from Eich about his thousands of dollars of donations in support of Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that sought to ban gay marriage in the state.
Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.
The Dish.
Not often I agree with Sullivan, but what boring bullies and cry babies some gay people have become.
Just say no to silly faggot witch hunts!
Update: Unsurprisingly leading gaybore Patrick Strudwick begs to differ. Hilariously the record-breakingly hysterical and ideologically muddled Mr Smugtwit accuses Sullivan of being 'hysterical and ideologically muddled'.
Update2; James Ball on Guardian Cif says 'his downfall is a victory for freedom of expression'. Sorry?
Update: Meanwhile all the Queerty gays are MAD AS HELL!
Update: Unsurprisingly leading gaybore Patrick Strudwick begs to differ. Hilariously the record-breakingly hysterical and ideologically muddled Mr Smugtwit accuses Sullivan of being 'hysterical and ideologically muddled'.
Update2; James Ball on Guardian Cif says 'his downfall is a victory for freedom of expression'. Sorry?
Update: Meanwhile all the Queerty gays are MAD AS HELL!
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They're actually both wrong. IMHO the witch-hunt was hysterical nonsense and was just plain daft. But Andrew Sullivan is a fucking idiot - if Eich is free to donate money to a hysterical anti gay marriage campaign, then the gaybores are more than entitled to organise a hysterical boycott against his company, no?
ReplyDeleteBut why target a company over a private donation?
DeleteBut people are not allowed to not be in favour of gay marriage?
Well, one of the board of directors had resigned rather than appoint him – for reasons they won’t discuss. Then when Eich was asked about his views he refused to say anything. A CEO who goes mum isn’t much use and as first demonstration of his skills in the role wasn’t very hopeful. Maybe he could have ridden it, maybe he couldn't have made a good argument - but he did nothing. In this amnner, he’d hobbled himself from the beginning, so his ability to be a competent CEO was compromised both internally and externally.
ReplyDelete- matthew davis