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0 pointsbjord1y ago0 comments

incorrect—eich donated to the campaign for california proposition 8, which was "a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage", and actually passed at the time, but was later overturned in court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8

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weberer1y ago

This was also back in 2008 when even Obama was quoted as defining marriage as "the union between a man and a woman" [1]. So that begs the question: Why did Eich get so much more scrutiny than even Obama? Why did the media seemingly coordinate to do hit pieces on him? And why the CEO of an open-source browser with < 5% market share, and not the massive big-tech incumbents?

[1] https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/obama-says-...

bjordOP1y ago

my opinions about morality aside, someone pointed out elsewhere that mozilla specifically has an outsized relationship with the LGBTQ+ community, thus making it practically impossible for him to be an effective leader there

he himself actually literally said as much: "Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next." [1]

it was reported on beforehand [2], but as far as I'm reading, there wasn't a serious outcry until 2014, six years after the donation, after he was appointed as CEO (and subsequently ousted)

as for politicians, I think they're by definition mealy-mouthed, and they often just say what they think people want to hear at any given time

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200711120251/https://abcnews.g...

[2] https://www.thepinknews.com/2012/04/04/javascript-inventor-g...

foldr1y ago

Obama opposed Proposition 8: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Obama-opposes-proposed-b...

SuperNinKenDo1y ago

Pretty sure that fits with what I said. But whatever.

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