Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831

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    • Alto@kbin.social
      564·
      9 months ago

      Too bad brave’s CEO is a giant bigoted piece of shit who I refuse to support.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        Damnit. Okay, what’s the next best Chromium based browser? I love Firefox but I have to keep a Chromium browser on hand for the few sites FF just doesn’t handle properly.

        • weegee90@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          9 months ago

          Vivaldi was my main browser for a while, and my backup chromium browser since I switched back to Firefox. Most of the privacy stuff in Brave is available as separate extensions and I really like Vivaldi’s sidebar and profile management.

        • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          If it works for you, and it’s only a secondary/failsafe browser, shouldn’t feel too guilty to use it.

          I don’t use brave and I’m not aware of what’s the issue with the CEO, not sure if knowing that would change my protective

          • Alto@kbin.social
            2·
            9 months ago

            The founder/CEO actively donates to anti-LGBT organizations, including ones that support conversion therapy. The guy is an awful piece of shit, and any decent person should take whatever steps necessary to not support them.

            Thankfully, that’s as simple as not using Brave.

        • Alto@kbin.social
          71·
          9 months ago

          No way, really?!?!

          I try to not reward companies that hire CEOs who actively support the extermination of gay people

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
            19·
            9 months ago

            Brendan Eich was a founder. He wasn’t hired. Not sure if anyone can remove him.

            How would you feel if a conservative organization mounted a campaign to boycott an entire company because the CEO is gay?

            The Brave browser is not itself exterminating gay people, nor stopping them marrying.

            Do you drink Fanta? Should we also still boycott Volkswagen and Hugo Boss?

            If you apply your boycotting consistently you need to avoid an awful lot of things

            (Note, I’m not defending Brendan Eich or his appalling views)

            • Alto@kbin.social
              61·
              9 months ago

              Get the actual fuck out of here with your both sides bullshit. Boycotting a company for being bigoted is not the same as boycotting a company because you yourself are a bigoted piece of shit.

              E: sp

              • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
                15·
                9 months ago

                No-one is claiming whatever it is you are trying to say.

                I’m saying neither the company nor product have done anything bigoted.

                Boycotting any and every company that employs bigots is impossible.

                • Alto@kbin.social
                  5·
                  9 months ago

                  If you can’t see why one would boycott a company with a loud and proudly bigoted founder, i don’t know what the fuck to tell you other than you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror.

                  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    14·
                    9 months ago

                    I can’t see why we should boycott when the product isn’t bigoted and the company doesn’t do bigoted things.

                    Highlighting a particular employee or position is not logical.

                    If the CFO was bigoted would you boycott?

                    If the country manager was bigoted would you boycott?

                    …

                    If the intern was bigoted would you boycott?

                    Under your moral code ANY company employing at least one bigot should be boycotted. This leads to almost all companies being boycotted.