[bobbytran]

The ex-Mozilla CEO was shit-canned for much less. I'm surprised so many here on HN support this.

[ddxxdd]

Try to look at the forest instead of any individual tree.

The ex-Mozilla CEO donated to an anti-gay marriage SuperPAC; the entire existence of that SuperPAC was 100% dedicated to opposition to gay marriage.

Google donated to a candidate that has voted on hundreds of different bills; less than 1% of his votes are under scrutiny in this Twitter thread.

[bobbytran]

Do you have proof that the SuperPACs only purpose was to oppose gay marriage?

He donated a very small amount of personal money as opposed to an entire company making donations.

[BrendanEich]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Sup... and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colbert-gets-a-super-pac-so-wha.... Citizens United (2010) after SpeechNow (2009) created Super-PACs. Prop 8 was on the CA ballot in 2008. So the comment above is technically wrong to use "Super-PAC", which was coined in 2010, but it sounds scarier than PAC. The double standard and special pleading for Google stink.

[sundarurfriend]

Yeah, I wonder if the political sentiment has turned so much in the last decade in the US, or just HN doing its usual thing of being contrarian towards the headline news. How was the Brandon Eich issue received here, what was the overall sentiment?