This post was killed because a great many users flagged it.
Moderators don't, as a rule, kill any stories that have an active thread. That way those who are interested in the discussion can keep it going. The most we would do is demote an item in rank. There are exceptions to this, but they're so rare I can't remember any.
I'm unkilling the post, because I want to reply to some of the moderation questions downthread, and I figure if I'm allowed to keep commenting here then everybody should be.
A win for bigotry everywhere.
If we don't like your personal opinions we wont vote or back a proposition against them -- we'll make you lose your job.
So if someone doesn't think like the mass, he looses his jobs?
I find it sad, he definitely had views opposed to mines, but he definitely would have done a great job as CEO at Mozilla...
It is somewhat interesting whether these links keep getting killed because HN's response has been so wholly immature or for some other reason.
This is sad.
I know about Brendan Eich's views, but Mozilla is an organization devoted to open source, none of whose concerns, as far as I can tell, have anything to be with sexual minorities. Were he still the CEO, he really couldn't have used his office to act on his views; so why all the castigating ?
He has a view, and sure a lot of us (including me) don't agree with him, but this culture of outrage is disgusting.
fags rejoice and re-install
Quick question: Am I supposed to not be learning JavaScript because of him?
edit: apparently downvotes are being used instead of "no, that's silly" which was really the point
Weird that these are being demoted. Regardless - I've seen some people defending him for various reasons, most prominently because he has a right to free speech. Of course he has a right to free speech, and he exercised it. He also has the responsibility to accept the consequences. His actions/speech made enough people angry enough to exercise their speech to the extent that Eich's position was no longer tenable.
People too often forget that rights don't mean that there will be no consequences to exercising those rights (within the bounds of the law, and other things).