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.
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.
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.