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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014

    You know things are fucked up when the poster child for a free and open Internet gets 90% of its revenue from Google & has a homophobic CEO.

    3:32 AM - 27 Mar 2014
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      2. ⓋR ⬋⬋⬋‏ @richardff0000 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Money makes the world go round right now, no real way around that.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @richardff0000

        @richardjapenga You always have a choice about how you make your money and what money (& corresponding strings) you accept.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. ⓋR ⬋⬋⬋‏ @richardff0000 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Very easy to say from 1st world country, also not so much when you are talking about 300 mil. a year to keep your company running.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @richardff0000

        @richardjapenga Yes, very easy to say when I’m struggling to bootstrap a true alternative.

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      2. Sallar Kaboli‏ @sallar 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Woz?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @sallar

        @sallar Mozilla.

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      4. Sallar Kaboli‏ @sallar 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Ha. I didn’t know it’s CEO is homophobic. Shame.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @sallar

        @sallar https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=brendan+eich+proposition+8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari …

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      6. Sallar Kaboli‏ @sallar 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        Mozilla CEO is homophobic! Haha. So much for “Free and Open”. “@aral: @sallar https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=brendan+eich+proposition+8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari …”

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      2. Dave Neary‏ @nearyd 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        I think that work "homophobic" gets used too much. I don't know @BrendanEich personally, but do not believe he fears gays. /cc @aral

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @nearyd

        . @nearyd You’re right, my bad. I should try to be more precise. I will use ‘bigoted’ from now on. +@BrendanEich

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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      2. Johnnode‏ @JohnnoNolan 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I may be ignorant here but what does his homophobia have to do with his running of mozilla? The google income issue seems orthogonal.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @JohnnoNolan

        @JohnnoNolan It has no more to do with it than if he was racist or a misandrist. Google income is textbook case of institutional corruption.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Johnnode‏ @JohnnoNolan 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Google income has obvious implications for mozilla. But Eich's donation is personal as long as he doesn't let that effect his job.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Johnnode‏ @JohnnoNolan 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @JohnnoNolan

        @aral these are why we have laws, right? To allow people who have differing opinions to coexist within a framework?

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      2. Francis Irving‏ @frabcus 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral as for his political positions... Do you only buy and use things whose CEO's agree with you on every political viewpoint?

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      3. Stuart Herbert‏ @stuherbert 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @frabcus

        @frabcus @aral the point here isn't just his personally held belief, it's that he actively worked to discriminate against other people

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      1. Francis Irving‏ @frabcus 27 Mar 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Ummm, they always have a bidding war. If Google don't pay, Bing or someone else would.

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        @aral we are screwed with browser choice then...

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