OkCupid Urges Boycott Of Mozilla

REUTERS - Mar 31 - OkCupid.com called for a boycott of Mozilla Firefox to protest the world's No. 2 Web browser naming a gay marriage opponent as CEO. OkCupid visitors who accessed the site through Firefox on Monday were tol to use other browsers. "Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples," the message said. "We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid."

by Gerry Shih
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Comments

[jay]

that seems a bit excessive for OKC - they can't force all of their straight customers to support SS marriage, or straight singles to date the same gender. Isn't their business model predicated on helping straight singles? LGBT rights should be a political issue, and not resort to personal attacks.

[Mark Brooks]

A fascinating move. I thought it was an April 1st gag, until I saw it was released on March 31st. There's a branding affinity happening here. A little site (with a lot of loyal and passionate followers) objects to the #3 browser on the planet.

See OkCupid rankings
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/internet_dating_international_rankings.html

See Firefox rankings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

But OkCupid makes news by standing for something that the majority of it users stands for.

[jay]

But would OKC ban customers who were evangelicals, conservative christians, catholics, muslims, jewish, etc that did not support SS marriage? They can support LGBT without personal attacks on other people and other companies. There are a few Christian restaurants chains that could also be targeted by OKC, but that didn't happen. Why would OKC attack and bully an individual's right to political and religious freedoms?