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This new CEO search will be very difficult as all candidates will have to go through a very detailed screening processing (well a good search should require tha
by yeukhon 13y ago
This new CEO search will be very difficult as all candidates will have to go through a very detailed screening processing (well a good search should require that anyway). In particular, anyone who lives in CA and has voted someone who is not in favor of gay will be tossed out right away.
Any company that jumps into a heated controversy like this is not acting heroic. Their actions are merely to strengthen the heat. It may appear that OkCupid is really just after that PR stun given how the CEO may have been against LGBT community by voting someone who is against LGBT. One might defend OkCupid's CEO by saying "well maybe he was voting him for some of the candidate's agenda, not the entire agenda. After all, no congressman has perfect agenda that everyone likes. You either choose someone you totally disagree with or someone you partially disagree with, or someone you think is actually helping and caring about people."
When we reflect, doesn't that make this whole crisis really stupid and ugly given how we elect people into office based on partial agreement? How Eich is helpful, friendly to his colleagues at Mozilla and outside of Mozilla and yet he is still not the right choice to lead Mozilla.
After all, Mozilla's mission IS ABOUT allowing every community to be able to express itself to the whole Internet. How do we do that? By building a browser which people can trust by verifying the source code. By building websites and tools which allow people to share opinions freely. By teaching people how to make use of technology to share opinions.
Choosing Eich might have been a really bad choice now that we reflect on history. CEO search will continue and will require triple efforts. Great lesson for all future CEO search. Yet, Mozilla has to take a lot of losses which is unfortunate.
I don't like OkCupid. What they did was truly amazingly reckless to me. You can disagree with me all you want. But it is. If you are going to boycott Mozilla over this LGBT issue, where was your boycott when we found out about NSA? Where were you OkCupid when we heard about Russian's ban on gay when the Winter Olympics was happening? There is so many worth causes for a service owner to display a boycott message to its users. Dying children and poor labor in the world. But most don't do that. Why? Neutrality for a neutral service is the right thing to do. Now all the sudden ganging up on Mozilla is fishy to me, OkCupid.
- zimpenfish 13y ago"Russian's ban on gay" doesn't exist. Sochi, for example, has many gay clubs. The Russians passed "you can't promote homosexuality to juveniles" which is very different.
- yeukhon 13y agoRestricting "pro-gay 'propaganda'" is a form of banning gays. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553704/Google-takes-stand-Russias-anti-gay-law-rainbow-coloured-Sochi-doodle-statement-calling-equal-rights.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553704/Google-takes... So where was OkCupid when this happened? obviously they didn't care.
- zimpenfish 13y agoIt's not even close to "banning gays". It's a restriction, sure, and it's a stupid dumb one that many countries have or have tried in the past but Russia isn't "banning gays" at all.