Powerful Message To Homophobic CEO

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“Mozilla Firefox users who try to use popular dating service OKCupid are currently being shown the above message, encouraging them not to use Firefox. The reason? Mozilla’s new CEO Brendan Eich opposes gay marriage. That’s how you play hardball.

Here’s the full text of the message, which is followed by links to Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari. After reading the entire message, there’s a link that allows you to proceed. So while it’s not an all out blockade, it’s still an impressive expression of political beliefs that could potentially alienate a lot of users. According to the Mozilla’s metrics, the browser has a half-billion users worldwide.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:
http://gizmodo.com/okcupid-tells-users-not-to-use-firefox-because-of-ceos-1555616237

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