Please, @Vlad, remain focused on search and do not allow cancel culture to creep into Kagi.
Eich is the creator of Javascript, an early employee of Netscape, and a founder of Mozilla. When appointed to lead Firefox in 2014, he was poised to be a landmark leader, applying the clear thinking that was so sorely needed, as demonstrated by Firefox's subsequent collapse in users and demotion to being little more than a vessel for Google ads.
Instead, a small handful of employee activists in non-engineering roles waged a vicious campaign against Eich. His sin was to have privately donated $1,000 in 2008 to the opposition to the Californian referendum to legalize gay marriage. This was his right as an American and a Californian. His right to have a political opinion was protected by the first amendment. He did not publicly campaign, he merely made an entirely legal private donation.
Eich was not against gay relationships and civil partnerships. He has never expressed any homophobic sentiments. As a Catholic, in common with the world's 1.4 billion other catholics (and, indeed, 2 billions Muslims and countless other religious humans) he believed, in 2008, that the sacrament of marriage should remain between a man and a woman. This was a mainstream opinion at that time, shared by pretty much all democrats including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. All of them publicly opposed gay marriage.
Again, this was 2008. Pretty much everyone, including most prominent gays, opposed gay marriage. It was a ridiculously niche issue and considered a distraction from issues that actually mattered to gays.
The 2014 cancelation campaign, six years later, was never anything more than hypocrisy, a powerplay by low-level employees at Firefox. No one actually believed that Eich was a danger to gays. Their narcissism shot Firefox in the face and deeply damaged the Open Software movement.
Now, a full decade later, you have a similar creature slithering into your forums and, in their one and only post here, demanding Kagi impair its service to comply with his demands. You also have another brand new member chiming in to say that Eich's $1,000 donation makes him "a Nazi". This ignorance of history perfectly illustrates why this manufactured hysteria does not belong on this forum. This thread should be deleted so that we can focus on issues that are actually relevant to the service that Kagi provides.
Seriously, why not simply declare this forum a politics-free zone? There is absolutely nothing good that can come from entertaining this bullshit. The next thing will be that you cannot use an API provided by an Israeli company, or your image search results don't include enough "people of color" etc. Just make a decision now to focus this forum on your actual service and don't give any oxygen to this destructive form of mental illness.
As an actual Kagi user, I applaud your use of any available API, from any source, to improve the service you provide to me.
