Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome
by hitekker on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:59PM
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Brendan Eich was against Gay Marriage at the same time that Barrack Obama himself was against Gay Marriage. A detail always forgotten in the rush to rehashing old grievances.
Calling Brendan evil or bad is the kind of moral shortcut that Progressives took, and keep taking. A microcosm of the election, really: all the capable moderates were effectively canceled or marginalized by self-righteous radicals, who deemed that the only "good" candidate was someone who couldn't win a primary.
It's bad politics and lazy morality.
Eh. It's one to not knowingly support a bad person, e.g. if they kept their opinions to themselves. But once an individual has made their positions crystal clear, it's a lot harder to morally support their innovations. Someone can do great work in tech, but if they are a known total piece of shit, I may/probably will avoid their products. I find a lot of tech-types try hard to decouple the humanity aspect from the innovation aspect - I presume this is a veiled attempt to get an "be an asshole" pass. Reality is people won't want to be around us if we suck as a humans, no matter how much code any of us put down.