Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
by peterwoo on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:43PM
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He didn't say or even insinuate that one has a right to be CEO of anything nor that any kind of speech should be banned.
A "lynch mob" is a pejorative term because it refers to a group of people who deprive another person of both their right to a fair trial, and subsequently their right to not be murdered (it also carries connotations of innocence, and a mob looking for a victim that fits a particular preconceived profile).
Banning speech is reductio ad absurdum of arguments that what happened to Eich should be somehow prevented. Because that's all that happened -- people making choices about what products to use, and talking to other people about that choice.
People have a right to not be murdered. They do not have a right to be the CEO of a company.
A group of people can say whatever they like, and if it puts sufficient pressure on a company that company can choose whether to act. What specific part of what happened here would you like to ban?