Firefox Goes To the Bigots

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 10:21 AM

I posted this somewhere else here. I belong to a dating site. I tried to go there yesterday and this is the message I got:
Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.

Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.

Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.

However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:

So, the homophobes, bigot CEO's personal position on gay rights is going to hurt the company. Pathetic

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2014, 10:25 AM

Why are a you starting a new thread about this? Why not just keep posting in the original one?

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Why are a you starting a new thread about this? Why not just keep posting in the original one?

That one went nowhere. Much better here

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2014, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Stonedtone

That one went nowhere. Much better here

Ok. In the future though, if you want a thread moved or want off-topic posts removed from a thread just ask a mod (anyone whose name is in blue like mine) and we'll be happy to do those things for you. No need to create duplicate threads.

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Ok. In the future though, if you want a thread moved or want off-topic posts removed from a thread just ask a mod (anyone whose name is in blue like mine) and we'll be happy to do those things for you. No need to create duplicate threads.

Sorry. Noob here

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2014, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Stonedtone

Sorry. Noob here

No worries.

Paul Smeenus · 04-01-2014, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Ok. In the future though, if you want a thread moved or want off-topic posts removed from a thread just ask a mod (anyone whose name is in blue like mine) and we'll be happy to do those things for you. No need to create duplicate threads.

Can we still make flapjacks

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2014, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

Can we still make flapjacks

Sure. Flapjacks would be nice.

Wpnfire · 04-01-2014, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Stonedtone

That one went nowhere. Much better here

Either you simply don't know that you shouldn't make duplicate threads, or you did know and made it anyway, either way though this statement was hilarious.

Bold, very bold.

Quote:

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Well when I'm in between classes and I'm tired of eating bagged cold meat sandwiches and granola bars that are basically candy bars, I generally head to the nearest McDonald's/Subway.

So that's probably some very mediocre reasoning actually.

As a fellow college student, I absolutely know where you are coming from.

Trollheart · 04-01-2014, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Why are a you starting a new thread about this? Why not just keep posting in the original one?

My thoughts too. If he thought it fit better in here, why not ask for it to be moved? Bit pointless starting the whole thing off again...

04-01-2014, 10:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
Stonedtone Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 152	Firefox Goes To the Bigots I posted this somewhere else here. I belong to a dating site. I tried to go there yesterday and this is the message I got: Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience. Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid. Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure. If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site. However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid: So, the homophobes, bigot CEO's personal position on gay rights is going to hurt the company. Pathetic

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