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Cancel culture was assuredly the weapon used to silence Eich, but we should not be fooled into thinking that cancel culture was "at fault." Remember, canceling
by safety1st 2y ago
Cancel culture was assuredly the weapon used to silence Eich, but we should not be fooled into thinking that cancel culture was "at fault."
Remember, canceling is a tool. People who want to conceal their real goals use this tool to slander and eliminate their enemies, and that's why we need to end it. But these people don't actually care about whatever values cancel culture purports to uphold - they are just savvy sociopaths. Ultimately these sociopaths all try to do the same thing, which is promote some kind of deception, fraud or graft.
I think Eich was one of the last guys at Mozilla who was dedicated to building a compelling rival to Chrome and preserving a free and open web. And I think these things have not been the mission of Mozilla for a long time. I think that Mozilla is an arm of Google, to know that, all you need to do is follow the money.
Mozilla has been marching to the beat of Google's drum for many years, and when it made sense for Google to claim it wasn't a monopoly, they ordered Mozilla to behave a certain way. Now that President Trump has sued Google, President Biden has won the case, and it's back on Trump to determine the sentencing as Pichai kisses the ring, there is too much power arrayed against Google and they have stopped trying to maintain the lie that they are innocent.
So now Google is deploying new orders to their bootlickers. We will see a variety of changes at Mozilla now that the mask is off.
We should not forget that the prime evil here is the convicted criminal enterprise that is Google.