OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians

Re:OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marri... by msabalau on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:04PM (#7512061)

OkCupid is not advocating restricting Eich's right to participate in civic society, to spout his hate, or even his ability to spend money to promote restricting the lives of others.

They are simply and clearly pointing out that he seeks "to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration" They don't want to associate with him, and they are recommending that other people avoid doing so.

OkCupid calling out a powerful person on his despicable behavior does not threaten democracy.

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Re:OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marri... by bertil on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @10:14PM (#7513148)

OkCupid is not calling out Eich personally, but Mozilla because of Eich’s individual position. There is a gap there that they, as an institution, decided to bridge. If you apply the same brush to OkCupid, their don’t sound so different they can give a lesson they needn’t listen too.

Democracy is not threatened in this debate -- however, consistency might not be on OkCupid’s side.

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