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[โ€“] raven@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I don't think being anti white supremacy and homophobia is shitty or controversial. Why would an Internet company write an article about something that affects the biggest sector of the Internet, social media? ๐Ÿค”
"No they should stay in their lane and only talk about, I don't know, CSS or something." I don't buy it.

[โ€“] KickMe@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who said anything about white supremacy or homophobia?

Regardless, yes, they should refrain from controversial subjects that are not related to their business. And if they decide to make social media censorship their business in a direct way, also fuck em.

[โ€“] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...the article you linked me? The topic of this discussion?

It shouldn't be controversial to anyone. The suggestions given there are pretty mild. Regardless, justice is not the absence of conflict. Sorry the article made you upset but that doesn't make it wrong.

[โ€“] KickMe@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't give a damn about the article. I only stated my reasons why Firefox and Chrome are total deal breakers for me. Maybe there's a better browser than all of them, but for now I'm happy with Brave.

And your opinion is your opinion, it isn't universal. Stop thinking that it is.

[โ€“] raven@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The opinion:
"Homophobia and white supremacy are bad and should be combated"

It's interesting that you think firefox is being "controversial" when their CEO writes a couple paragraphs about combating hate speech online, but brave isn't when their CEO sends money to hate organizations. ๐Ÿค”

If the user share of Firefox falls too low websites will stop supporting it (which is already happening), we will have given google the internet. Everything that is not Firefox is based on Chrome.