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Phony Boycott

Mother Jones: OkCupid Push Against Mozilla CEO Looking More Like a PR Stunt Than a Protest [Reason.com]

No kidding. Brendan Eich wasn’t CEO of Mozilla long enough to do anything, but he will always be the creator of JavaScript. Yet if you go to the OKCupid site with JavaScript disabled, you see this:

OKCupid JavaScript Required

In other words, they briefly claim to boycott a technology because of a job that Eich never had a chance to do, but they require a technology which he actually did do. Their “boycott” was a fraud from the beginning.

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