Re:Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter
by Zigurd on Saturday January 24, 2015 @10:54AM
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> Look at what happened to Brendan Eich.
That is different from, for example, what happened to the Occupy movement. Brendan Eich was not investigated by the FBI, nor was he wiretapped, nor was a confidential informant sent to tempt him into an illegal act.
If Brendan Eich's views on gays having the freedom to marry were not opposed by a large number of people relevant to his leadership position at Mozilla, and if Mozilla did not have a corporate culture that was overtly welcoming to LGBT individuals, it would not have mattered. In fact it demonstrably did not matter until Brendan Eich came into a leadership position where he could change Mozilla's culture.
A surveillance state, on the other hand, is devoted to preserving itself at the expense of everyone and anyone else. That's not the same thing.
That is different from, for example, what happened to the Occupy movement. Brendan Eich was not investigated by the FBI, nor was he wiretapped, nor was a confidential informant sent to tempt him into an illegal act.
If Brendan Eich's views on gays having the freedom to marry were not opposed by a large number of people relevant to his leadership position at Mozilla, and if Mozilla did not have a corporate culture that was overtly welcoming to LGBT individuals, it would not have mattered. In fact it demonstrably did not matter until Brendan Eich came into a leadership position where he could change Mozilla's culture.
A surveillance state, on the other hand, is devoted to preserving itself at the expense of everyone and anyone else. That's not the same thing.