No, it's not the same. Why? Because most people say those things in a conversation. A company who controls the Start Page of a browser that is seen by millions needs to hold themselves higher and more accountable than the average Joe/Jane comment.
The Start Page is not a platform to present the views of others. If Mozilla is hurting for customers as this campaign seems to suggest, maybe they should think about that. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Majken Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > I also have children. Many many many children learn the F-bomb at home. As > they learn gosh or darn or check, or hell or learn to take the Lord's name > in vain, at home. Did you not know that gosh means God and darn means damn? > Geez is also short for Jesus. It's pretty much exactly the same, unless > your argument is that Fuck is the only bad word left and so any allusions > to it - fudge, shut the front door! - are also unacceptable. I did send > that email to the list, not just you, so everyone knows what I said. > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:59 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> As a Mozillian daddy, I find this entirely innocuous – at worst, worth a >> chuckle. >> >> If my child says "Fox Yeah" at school, I will be annoyed, but that's >> because he has been influenced by an ad. And if he says "Fuck Yeah", >> I'll teach him the difference, end of the story. >> >> I am sure that there are other parents who do not agree with me, but >> frankly, there are more interesting things to get angry about in the >> world than an ad using something that sounds like a swearword but isn't. >> >> Best regards, >> David >> >> On 11/06/15 02:08, [email protected] wrote: >> > Nobody is offended by the word "fox". If Mozilla is okay with "FoxYeah" >> > which is alluding to "FuckYeah", and "Fox yeah you do!" is alluding to >> > "Fuck yeah you do!" OH NO! Now it seems a little more offensive, doesn't >> > it. Some must need to see it in order to get it, so there it is in all >> > its glory. >> > >> > I had a Mozilla volunteer email me and say "Fox yeah" is nothing more >> > than "gosh" or "darn". I couldn't disagree more. Mainly because >> > someone may say "darn" in a one on one conversation. Mozilla has chose >> > to plaster it on the Start Page for millions to see. >> > >> > I would like those Mozilla people who don't have children to think about >> > a little child seeing that when they get on their computer, and they go >> > to school and say it to someone, maybe even a teacher. All of a sudden >> > it's not an innocent word like "gosh" or "darn". No, it's much worse, >> > because adults know what is being said by it. >> > >> > Mozilla doesn't want to offend anyone. Fox yeah they do. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > governance mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >> >> >> -- >> David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD >> Performance Team, Mozilla >> _______________________________________________ >> governance mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >> > > -- Terry _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
