Yesterday Andrew Sullivan denounced
the campaign against now-former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, declaring
that if the Eich controversy represents the gay rights movement today,
he no longer wants any part of it. Michelangelo Signorile responded
to Sullivan this morning in a post which contends that it wasn't Eich's
donation to the Prop 8 campaign that did him in. An excerpt:
Reposted from Joe Jervis
Eich only announced he was stepping down after it was revealed late Wednesday that he'd given money to Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign in 1992, and later to Ron Paul's campaign. Suddenly, in addition to defending a CEO who gave money to homophobic efforts, Mozilla would have to defend a CEO who supported Buchanan, a far right extremist and isolationist who's been accused of racist and anti-Semitic attacks, and who also was, rightly, driven off MSNBC -- though that took years longer to accomplish than the few weeks it took to purge Alec Baldwin.Hit the link and read Signorile's full response.
It all just became too much for Mozilla to bear, and who knows what else may have been dug up on Eich? None of this is about government censorship. It's about a company based in Northern California which has many progressive employees, and which has a lot of progressives and young people among the user base of its Firefox browser, realizing its CEO's world view was completely out of touch with the company's --and America's -- values and vision for the future.
Labels: activism, Andrew Sullivan, Brendan Eich, LGBT rights, Michelangelo Signorile, Mozilla, Pat Buchanan, Proposition 8
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