Firefox Goes To the Bigots

Stonedtone · 04-01-2014, 11:21 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, 11:25 AM

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

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-01-2014, 11:27 AM

That he started ironically.

FRED HALE SR. · 04-01-2014, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

That he started ironically.

Hes got Chik-Fil-A on the brain apparently.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-01-2014, 11:29 AM

I have no idea what that is but it sounds vile & cheap.

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2014, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

I have no idea what that is but it sounds vile & cheap.

That's a surprisingly accurate description of it.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-01-2014, 11:32 AM

I refuse to eat any food where the title of it has been abbreviated, hyphened or gimmicked.

Wpnfire · 04-01-2014, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janszoon

That's my surprisingly accurate description of it.

ahem.

Also, I think you're confusing KFC with Chik-Fil-A, the former is vile and cheap.

YorkeDaddy · 04-01-2014, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

I refuse to eat any food where the title of it has been abbreviated, hyphened or gimmicked.

Yeah that'll show em!!!

<3

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2014, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wpnfire

ahem.

Also, I think you're confusing KFC with Chik-Fil-A, the former is vile and cheap.

They're both vile and cheap, along with Popeyes.

04-01-2014, 11:21 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

04-01-2014, 11:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
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04-01-2014, 11:27 AM	#3 (permalink)
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04-01-2014, 11:29 AM	#5 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I have no idea what that is but it sounds vile & cheap. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

04-01-2014, 11:32 AM	#7 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I refuse to eat any food where the title of it has been abbreviated, hyphened or gimmicked. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.