{"id":5232,"date":"2014-04-06T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:59:01","slug":"mozilla-boss-done-in-by-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5232","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla boss done in by intolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Brendan Eich was under some illusion, apparently, that the First Amendment means people are free to express their political beliefs without retribution.<\/p>\n<p>I guess not.<\/p>\n<p>Eich was canned by Mozilla, the Internet browser, because he gave some money in 2008 to political organizations that favored a ban in California of gay marriage. Proposition 8 became a battle cry for those seeking &#8220;marriage equality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do not care to comment on the merits of Prop 8. I <em>do<\/em> care, though, to suggest that Eich got the shaft by his company.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Why Mozilla\u2019s Chief Had to Resign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbits.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F04%2F04%2Fwhy-mozillas-chief-had-to-resign%2F#?secret=wblcJiPT00\" data-secret=\"wblcJiPT00\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whatever this man thinks of gay marriage, Prop 8, or whether the moon is made of green cheese has zero relevance to the company he runs.<\/p>\n<p>Is he smart enough to be chief executive officer of a multi-bazillion-dollar Internet company? Apparently so. The company reportedly is in good financial shape in the cut-throat world of big business and matters relating to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The most troubling aspect of this man&#8217;s dismissal &#8212; to my way of thinking &#8212; is that it suggests an intolerance of views that don&#8217;t comport with progressive thinkers. My understanding of the term progressive, which is synonymous with &#8220;liberal,&#8221; is that one should keep an open mind and judge everyone&#8217;s views on their merits. An unwritten element here is that the view should be relevant to something broader and more far-reaching than merely the individual who has expressed that view.<\/p>\n<p>So what if the guy gave money to Prop 8 supporters? Does that make him less qualified to run his company? The link attached here suggests that his view restricts Mozilla&#8217;s ability to hire first-rate engineers and other geeks who might be dissuaded from working for someone who believes as he does about gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Come on!<\/p>\n<p>It pains me to say that we have a case of political correctness running amok. The U.S. Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment has been stomped on in the process.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Eich was under some illusion, apparently, that the First Amendment means people are free to express their political beliefs without retribution. I guess not. Eich was canned by Mozilla, the Internet browser, because he gave some money in 2008 to political organizations that favored a ban in California of gay marriage. Proposition 8 became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mozilla boss done in by intolerance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[737,1738,1863,3152],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brendan-eich","tag-first-amendment","tag-gay-marriage","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}