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OkCupid urges users to boycott Mozilla Firefox over CEO’s support for anti-LGBT law
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/31/okcupid-urges-users-to-boycott-mozilla-firefox-over-ceos-support-for-anti-lgbt-law/
OkCupid urges users to boycott Mozilla Firefox over CEO’s support for anti-LGBT law
By Reuters
Monday, March 31, 2014 22:02 EDT
By Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – OkCupid.com, the popular online dating site, called for a boycott of Mozilla Firefox to protest the world’s No. 2 Web browser naming a gay marriage opponent as chief executive.
OkCupid visitors who accessed the website through Firefox on Monday were told in a message to use other browsers such as Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer or Google Inc’s Chrome.
“Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples,” the message said. “We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.”
“Especially in the kind of modern hero culture, the CEO is equivalent to the company,” said Christian Rudder, an OkCupid co-founder. “We have users who are trying to find other people and we wanted to point out that this browser might be in conflict with their own values.”