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by georgemcbay 4454 days ago
Yes, the people have a voice. All the people. I believe strongly in free speech and if anything, I think this whole episode is an example of it working across the board.

Brendan Eich is free to support what I see as stupidly offensive positions, other people are free to speak out against what he said and/or boycott. The company he was made CEO of is free to stand by their man or cave and force him to resign.

Three different entities/groups utilized their freedom to speak and/or choose, so what's the problem?

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> Three different entities/groups utilized their freedom to speak and/or choose, so what's the problem?

The hypocrisy.

Where are OKCupid's protests against Intel? 538 didn't release names, but surely they can't be hard to find, and if there is reason to burn one heretic then by induction there's reason to burn all the rest. So what is OKCupid waiting for?