In the US, gay boycott Mozilla Firefox

Dissatisfaction homosexuals caused his appointment as CEO Mozilla Brandon Ike, who in 2008 donated a thousand dollars for a law banning same-sex marriage in California.

Several IT-companies urged users to abandon the browser Firefox.

Thus, the administration of the New York dating site OkCupid joined the action of homosexuals, demanding the resignation of the new CEO Brendan Mozilla Ike.

When you try to visit the site in Mozilla Firefox notification appears with the following content: "Hello, user Mozilla Firefox. We are sorry for what we have left off. New CEO of Mozilla Brenden Ike - an opponent of gay marriage. For this reason we prefer that our visitors do not use Mozilla software to access our site ».

Under this Visitor offers links to download Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. At the bottom of the page there is a link, clicking on which Firefox user enters the home page OkCupid www.okcupid.com/

OkCupid owned media conglomerate IAC / InterActive, which owns 50 brands in 40 countries. Among them: the other dating site Match.com, as well as the news site Daily Beas and dictionary Dictionary.com. OkCupid lets you search for a couple in a database on the basis of three sexual preferences: normal, homosexual and bisexual. On request «gay dating» in Google resource is not on the first page, but on the other it has a site IAC / InterActive - Match.com.

In addition to the administration OkCupid, against the appointment of Brendan Ike appears small company Rarebit, which develops applications for Firefox OS. The company was founded a couple homosexuals, one of them protested that at the helm of the Mozilla stood a man with such narrow views. Following the appointment of Ike Rarebit stopped production of whatever software for Firefox OS.

It should be noted that in the end the amendment to ban same-sex marriage on kotoruyuAyk donated a considerable sum, was canceled. In 2013, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed that opponents of same-sex marriages. Today, same-sex marriages are legal in California.

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