Mozilla CEO faced ‘new fascism,’ Gingrich says

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Former Mozilla chief executive Brendan Eich was forced out of the company due to a “new fascism,” Newt Gingrich said Sunday.

During an episode of ABC’s “This Week,” the former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate slammed the decision to get rid of Eich, who resigned as head of the Internet non-profit last week.

Eich — who co-founded Mozilla, which runs Firefox, and was brought on as CEO last month — resigned amid online protests over his donation of $1,000 to the campaign for California’s Proposition Eight, which banned same-sex marriage in the state.

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On Sunday, Gingrich criticized the public campaign that led to Eich’s departure.

Too often, he said, is “you have the wrong views, meaning conservative, you have no career.”

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“you have the wrong views, meaning conservative, you have no career.” <--Did Noot describe his own 2012 presidential campaign?

funny how right wingers looooove the "free market" deciding things...until it affects THEM.

[pipoman]

1. No, 'new fascism' would be NSA spying. ..

[Lithos]

2. Fascism?

What Corporations were involved?

Oh, wait, I get it.. so easy to be confuse when corporations are people and people are corporations.....

L-

[MurrayDelph]

12. They keep using that word

I do not think it means what they think it does.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I lost count of the places where Newter was utterly wrong

especially the 'wrong views' affecting one's career. I have never been fortunate enough to work for a company whose CEO was even remotely liberal - much less the RW hosebags who were my immediate supervisors. I've got scars from biting my tongue so frequently.

[Ohio Joe]

4. 'Waaaa, we can't be bigots who fight to keep people from having equal rights'

These shits bags make me sick.

[JaneyVee]

5. Sorry Newt, he resigned. Personal responsibility and

Free markets and such. Hypocrite.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. I guess "facism" is the new rallying cry of the RW persecution complex brigade.

[IDemo]

7. Well, at least he admits that Conservatism represents the wrong view n/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. No, Eich faced capitalist concern that his support of fundamentalist religous tyrany

would hurt Mozilla's bottom line.

Mozilla, being a private company, doesn't give a shit about freedom of speech and is not bound to protect it.

[SomethingFishy]

9. Poor Newt, can't get out from under the Jackboots of the new LGBT Fascists..

"I tried to discriminate against "those people" and they boycotted me! Fascists!!!!"

[gratuitous]

11. Serial adulterer says what?

Yeah Newt, hard to believe you're living in a world where a white man just can't catch a break. Are you going to host a telethon for poor Brendan Eich to help him make ends meet?

[Zorra]

13. Nice people simply don't care for hateful bigots, Newt. I know this must come as a shock to you.

Deal with it.

[Enthusiast]

14. Gingrich the dumbass.