Exclusive: Firefox feedback page flooded with death threats and homophobic abuse after CEO row
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Mozillaās feedback website has been flooded with death threats and homophobic abuse, following the resignation of its CEO over his anti-gay marriage stance.
Brendan Eich resigned as CEO on Thursday, following outrage after it emerged he had donated $1000 (Ā£600) to help pass Californiaās āProposition 8ā² gay marriage ban in 2008
Following his resignation, feedback site Firefox Input has been the subject of a torrent of homophobic abuse, with 59,749 negative comments left in three days.
Some of the āfeedbackā left on the website includes:
āGod hates fags, you sick, twisted freaks. Maybe you should all pour gasoline on yourselves and light a match.ā
āWhat sadistic, freedom crushing asshats you are. What hypocrites. The gay gestapoā¦how does that moniker suit you? It is accurate, rest assured. Again, you suck.ā
āMy computer wonāt function on a Gay Liberal Web site. Sorry I had to remove you from my computer!ā
āYou made your CEO take a hike, so Iām takinā a hike too. Take you belief & stick it up your ass, right next to the fagās cock.ā
ādrop dead nazi fagsā
āJust un-intalled mozilla from 4 computers. FU assholes. Canāt stand you gay pricks.ā
āIf you think the citizens of this country are going to keep putting up with a bunch of fags pushing us around, you are a foolā
āthe fags need to get back in the closet and you need to join them you hypocrites i have uninstalled all instances of firefox on my machines and encouraged all my friends to do the same tell the homos i will say and do as i please as is my god given rightā
The.feedback is coming in at over ten times the rate of a normal period last month.
At 86% negative, the proportion of negative feedback is just a few percentage points higher than recorded for Firefox usually on the site.
