I find it very interesting that Eich was outsted from Mozilla for his anti-gay stance, and much of HN was in agreement at the time, yet this seems to never come up with Brave despite LGBTQ rights having far stronger support today. Why is that?
It's not that odious of a sin (and I disagree with Eich, incidentally). Should the majority of California citizens be canceled, permanently? Not allowed any leadership positions?
False. The reason for leaving Mozilla was never published.
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something like he himself did some about-face, or people lost track of this, or if they just don't care anymore or what?
So your disappointed Hacker News isn't more engaged with identity politics and cancel culture?
And by the way you are wrong. It has come up in several threads in the past.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25844354
Well, then the timing is so aligned then at this point it's just occam's razor unless there's another explanation.
> So your disappointed Hacker News isn't more engaged with identity politics and cancel culture?
There's plenty of that. It's nearly daily now on HN. That wasn't my point at all. Just the inconsistency has always been apparent for years now so I finally asked the hive mind.
> And by the way you are wrong. It has come up in several threads in the past.
I stand corrected. I had never noticed those comments. That said, it was easy to not notice them as they're a tiny fraction of everything around Brave and have almost no discussion around them compared to his original ousting.