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by speeder 1366 days ago
I think he is referring to the massive fallout after Brendan Eich (one of the founders of Mozilla and now founder of Brave) donated some money to a socially conservative political campaign (I forgot what one).

Brendan "quit" Mozilla, but many people consider that he was kinda forced to quit.
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weberer 1366 days ago
It was the 2008 California Proposition 8 which banned same-sex marriage. Its worth noting at the time that 52% of Californians agreed with him and 48% were against. It wasn't until 2014 when he was cancelled for it and people were calling it an "extreme" position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8

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PopAlongKid 1366 days ago
> 52% of Californians agreed with him

More precisely, that's 52% of less than 80% of registered voters.

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