We both know that CEOs are never fired, but there is a difference between resigning on their own accord and “resigning” because they had no organizational support. What happened to Eich was the CEO-equivalent of getting fired.

> Donations are public material support. Not private views.

Not really? Nobody would know what causes Eich donates to if they didn't make an effort to look it up and broadcast that information.

Even if you take that view, are you saying that nobody who works for Mozilla is allowed to make any political donations ever? Or are you simply saying that you Mozillians aren't allowed to donate money to conservative causes? Because it sounds a lot like the second one, and then we're back to the original allegation: that Mozilla today is a political project first, and a technological project second. Otherwise, how do you explain Mozilla caring so much about which political campaigns its employees donate to?

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pseudalopex 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> We both know that CEOs are never fired, but there is a difference between resigning on their own accord and “resigning” because they had no organizational support.

CEOs are never fired is false objectively. CEOs must earn support. And there was no reason to state false information if you believed everyone would understand the context of the facts.

> Not really?

Really. Public records are public.

> Nobody would know what causes Eich donates to if they didn't make an effort to look it up and broadcast that information.

No one would know most news stories if someone didn't research and publish them. No one would know what Mozilla's CEO was paid if no one looked it up and published it.

> Even if you take that view, are you saying that nobody who works for Mozilla is allowed to make any political donations ever?

People are allowed to make donations. People are allowed to choose who they follow or support or not.

And jobs have different standards. Eich remained CTO years after his donation was published with little controversy.

> Otherwise, how do you explain Mozilla caring so much about which political campaigns its employees donate to?

Who are Mozilla to you? The board appointed Eich CEO years after his donation was published

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DonHopkins 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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eudamoniac 5 days ago | parent [-]

>It's your own fault you lost this argument because you decided to attempt such a pathetically transparent lie, and you can't back-pedal enough to make up for that. Face it, you're just a dishonest bigot on the wrong side of history, still salty that gay marriage is finally legal, impotent to do anything about it besides being a lying keyboard warrior troll.

>I hope for your own family's sake that your own straight marriage isn't so fragile that it was undermined by gay marriage being legal, as Brendan's and other homophobic bigot's tired arguments claim is the insidious threat of gay marriage.

>Maybe you made bad life choices and want to punish people who didn't, but that's on you, so don't take it out on gay people, even if you're one of the jealous hateful closeted self loathing ones yourself.

This is a particularly egregious post that I think warrants more intervention than just a flag @dang. This user has been doing this quite a lot, over a period of many months, if you search his posts for the word "Eich" or "bigot".

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