OK Cupid is a dating site in recently they warned Mozilla far
Firefox users to stopped using that particular about browser
because it has some issues with the CEO okay so the CEO is apparently
against who gay community he in fact
donated a thousand dollars to the prop 8 campaign here in California
proposition aid band same-sex marriage
so as a result OK Cupid decided you know what we are going to send a message to
anyone who comes to
our website using Firefox ok here's what they wrote
if you do use Mozilla this is what you'll see if you got OK Cupid
we've done over the last 10 years to bring people all people together if
individuals like mister I
have their way then roughly eighty percent of the relationships we worked
so hard to bring
about would-be illegal equality for gay relationships is personally important to
many
us here at OK Cupid those who seek to deny love
and instead in force mystery shame in frustration
are our enemies damn and we wish them nothing
but failure okay cupid
doubt scrawl that was strong this solo no license also commended delivered a
significant
for can elbow on the table that CEO firefighters
head your man fire in a foxhole
I think I think that that takes a lot of courage as the company
and a business right absolutely now know that took significant balls on the party
will keep you could do because
what you doing the same to some not
insignificant percentage of your audience we're gonna make it much harder
for you to get into our
website and we're willing to lose this amount owed
traffic enhance business because of our principles
now it's also great marketing in you know if OK Cupid wanted to expand into
well I don't know what the state over there is apparently they say eight
percent there
are there client/server homosexuals right
and so if they want expand more into that market boy as in
genius marketing move right but it takes balls because
you really get a lot I hate 48 it you know
the the some you lose some business course according to Yahoo or politically
against you
law-abiding it was immediate business cuz people have a hard time getting your
website right
exactly and in your gonna lose business to other dating sites I mean it's an
oversaturated market there's
Christian mingle I'm sure the people go to Christian mingle they're looking for
in moral
dating site right in their words moral not but I like the fact that they did
this
I think they're educating people about what the reality is about the CEO
I'm I don't necessarily know if I'm gonna be against an entire company based
on the CEO's
I believes on everything you know what i mean bigger and then you can't you can
shop anywhere
right a lot of CEOs are unethical or they have political ideology that
doesn't line up with my
so I think that it's a really interesting question to ask where do you
draw that line
if someone is actively donating money to an anti-gay cause
well that is already crossing the line for me but I'm really curious how much
it'll take for me to be like
alright you know I don't necessarily agree with that but I'm not gonna stop
going to that company or that website
yeah you know some people who see this political intimidation with you is what
he did
the opposite you know this CEO is sick environmentalists what the protector
earth go get up but book had a really bad somebody bout
maybe it's a poor example but to but
so yeah I get I get the concern a no question on that but this goes to the
core their business
like this said their whole job is to bring people together and they say the
CEO
is blocking that so they can take action it's not peripheral to their business
is central to their business yes and and so
its whether you agree or disagree with that it is clearly an active kar
OK Cupid still allows you to access their website using a browser
so what you have to do is read that entire message or you don't have to read
that message you can scroll down
at the very bottom there's a link that will still take you through to the OK
Cupid website
but this is there tend to educating people about what's going on
now Mozilla Firefox has employees that are currently protesting
their own CEO and nap also takes a tremendous amount of course I want to
give you some examples and again these are all employees that work at the
company how one person says have waited too long to say this I'm an employee of
mazzola
and I asking Brendan ike to step down as CEO
another person says i'm an employer Mozilla and I'm asking him to step down
as CEO lot of people saying the same thing
to me mazzola's about open as an expression of freedom I hope to see us
have leadership that represents those values in there
actions day I am you know overall what this says to me is that the
in this case justice is on the march and
the guys against equality are reeling
and they're in a defensive position back in 2004 there on offense
okay and may put a lot of these laws
on the ballots the so the drive more republicans the
voting booth sewing is George W Bush elected there was a call row strategy
he used to hate against the gay community to get bush to
election in 2004 but now if you did that
you probably regret it kinda amazing how much things have progressed with the
in for the gay community in 10 years in one decade
yet know this news it's great it's great to see that
clearly if they were winning they would mean of us like this
right