So #Kagi is now partnering with #Brave, i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich.
A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation".
https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave
Quite a controversial decision… I love Kagi though, but I don’t understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.
That is kinda disappointing. I had a distaste for Brave after all the initial controversy regarding the ad blocking, which only got worse from the crypto crap they now have in the browser.
I’ll still keep paying for Kagi, but this is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion. Let’s hope at least the results get noticeably better.
You don’t get labeled as “phobic” for thinking that - you get labeled as “phobic” because you’ve made it, and your complete inability to mind your own business, your entire personality.
He spent money to actively oppose LGBT rights. That’s very different to merely not publicly supporting it in order to avoid public backlash from people he had to win over to be elected.
One of those is spineless or, charitably, savvy politicking. The other is outright hateful.
Also, he hasn’t come out and said that he was wrong or tried to make up for it in any way.
That is kinda disappointing. I had a distaste for Brave after all the initial controversy regarding the ad blocking, which only got worse from the crypto crap they now have in the browser.
I’ll still keep paying for Kagi, but this is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion. Let’s hope at least the results get noticeably better.
Don’t forget the Brave CEO being ousted from Mozilla for being massively homophobic
Has he done more than giving 1000 USD in 2008? Any statement for example?
These days it’s easy to get label as -phohic
You don’t get labeled as “phobic” for thinking that - you get labeled as “phobic” because you’ve made it, and your complete inability to mind your own business, your entire personality.
He didn’t support gay marriage in 2008. Neither did Obama, but he gets a free pass. Is Obama massively homophobic?
Firstly, fuck off with this misrepresentation.
He spent money to actively oppose LGBT rights. That’s very different to merely not publicly supporting it in order to avoid public backlash from people he had to win over to be elected.
One of those is spineless or, charitably, savvy politicking. The other is outright hateful.
Also, he hasn’t come out and said that he was wrong or tried to make up for it in any way.
Has he made a statement to the contrary?
Neither did the CEO of Grindr, later than that, lol