I'm sorry- I'm extremely confused about what this has to do with this web browser.

Brave was founded by Brandon Eich who donated $1000 to Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

Yeah, seems weird that Hacker News is censoring this. I guess they don't want people to know that. Maybe Brave gave them some money to push this announcement.

Several posts in this subthread were flagged by users, probably because they were off topic and broke the site guideline against flamewar. The Eich/Prop 8 flamewar has been repeated dozens if not hundreds of times on HN over 10 years now. Nothing new will come of it, and nothing that predictable can be on topic here, because the defining feature of ontopicness is gratifying intellectual curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Nobody pays us anything, let alone to "push announcements"—of all the things we could do to ruin this community, that would be the stupidest. We don't accept gifts either FWIW.)

Or maybe nobody gives a fuck about this and we just want to discuss Brave.

I mean, that was a pretty terrible thing to do and learning it does color my perception of Brave. I just wish the OP had provided that context (and they probably wouldn't have gotten so downvoted by others if they had).

How is donating money to a campaign that passed with 7 million votes a "terrible thing to do"? Are we not allowed to have an opinion that is different from the intelligentsia?

This sort of thing does color my perception of Brave in the other direction. The fact that Eich refused to "confess and recant" in the face of internet lynch mobs and getting fired as CEO of Mozilla makes him rather brave in my estimation.

Donating money (or voting) towards restricting others' individual liberties is a terrible thing to do, period.

But that's all I'll say on the matter, so as to avoid a flame-war.