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[–] [deleted] 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

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[–] laikaislost 3 points -1 points (+2|-3) ago  (edited ago)

Why should Brandon Eich have gotten fired from Mozilla for giving money to an anti-gay marriage campaign?

Because a company has decided that they don't want to alienate some of their customer base (the gays), and when an employee's donation publicly reflects negatively on the company's image, they should have the right to take action. The problem is that for Brandon, the donation was not limited to his private life. When people associated it with Mozilla rather than Brandon, it stopped being private.

Mozilla and Brandon still have free speech since no one was arrested. It just Mozilla is profit motivated, and it is not good business to piss off potential customers.

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[–] Somali 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

All that does is open up a different avenue for silencing and intimidating people for practicing the right to free speech. Whether your life is ruined through being imprisoned or unfairly fired/made unemployable doesn't matter. It's basically the same thing except in prison they still feed you.