For the record, you can still use OKC with Firefox; you just get a lecture when you do it.
Is it okay to discriminate against Nazis, or is that hypocritical?
That depends. Have they actually killed people or just talked about it?
Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox
by Borogove on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @12:30PM
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Seriously? That's your dividing line?
Incidentally, you mentioned threats to Eich above; I haven't personally seen any but I don't support threats of violence to him. I don't even have particularly strong feelings one way or the other about boycotting Mozilla. Mostly we're having a conversation here.
I do feel it's perfectly reasonable to point fingers of shame towards Eich for his donations and weaseling, and at Mozilla for elevating Eich.
I haven't seen any suggestions that he has attempted to discriminate, or implement discriminatory policies, against any individuals at Mozilla or otherwise.
I voted for Amendment 64 in Colorado to legalize canabis. Should that disqualify me from working because maybe means I get high too much (though I don't use)?
The argument against him is that he's discriminating, but now we have a case where OkCupid is literally and actively discriminating against users based on their choice of browser. Other people have actively threatened him. Those actions are, from my perspective, completely hypocritical: "We don't like people that discriminate, so we're going to discriminate against people that we don't agree with."