> His donations to prop 8 were not public in the first place, the donation lists (of both sides) were leaked.
This is incorrect. By law, donations in excess of $100 must be publicly listed. Proponents of prop 8 tried unsuccessfully to get courts to block operation of that law.
Ah, I didn't know that. Thank you for the correction (sadly I can't edit my original comment anymore, so I can't put the correction there directly)
Re:Thinking About Mozilla
by tomcorrigan on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @01:42PM
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Some proponents not all. Let's not tar them all with the same brush.
There's a rather stark contrast. You're worried about "tarring" them with trying to gain privacy for themselves at the cost of a rather nebulous public good, but you're perfectly happy to defend their attempts to remove rights from other people in exchange for no gain, nebulous or solid, public or private.
Sickening.
Could you link to that? He has stated that his giving to prop 8 was not "evidence of animosity" and did not make him "hateful" or "a bigot"[0]. Not a surprising position for him to take regardless of its correctness: I don't know many people who'd call themselves hateful and bigoted even if that applied.
But to my knowledge, he has not at any point apologised for giving to Prop 8, quite the opposite.
> Has he publicly opposed gay marriage in some other way since then? No? Okay…
His donations to prop 8 were not public in the first place, the donation lists (of both sides) were leaked. I'm not sure how that's relevant though, he's not changed his mind since then.
> ...let's not forget that around 90% of the language in the '64 Civil Rights Act was around repealing existing discriminatory laws
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
[0] https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/