By: The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, CALIF.—An
online dating service is encouraging its users to stop using the Firefox
web browser because the new CEO of the company that makes it supported
California’s former gay marriage ban.
Mozilla, the
non-profit maker of Firefox, infuriated many employees and users last
week by choosing co-founder Brendan Eich — who invented JavaScript — to
lead the Mountain View, Calif., company.
In 2008, Eich gave
$1,000 to the campaign to pass California’s Proposition 8. The ballot
measure outlawed same-sex marriages in California until the U.S. Supreme
Court left in place a lower-court ruling that struck it down.
OkCupid.com updated its home page Monday so people who access the site with Firefox see a message saying,
“Mozilla’s new CEO,
Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would
therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access
OkCupid.”
However, readers who want to keep using Firefox are able to access the site with a link at the bottom.
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