Yes.
Brave Software’s CEO is Brendan Eich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
Eich resigned from Mozilla in 2014 after it turned out that he’d made political donations against California’s same-sex marriage equality bill. Since then, he’s got press for being some kind of COVID denialist https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html
So, as well as the crypto bullshit and advertising cooperation that others mentioned, company’s run by a shitlord.
So saying the word or phrase That starts with " B " is now a prohibited
Fortunately/unfortunately I’m not in charge of what words are allowed on Lemmy or Lemmygrad, let alone the english language. But yes, I’d suggest retiring the “based” word.
the other comrades ) din’t say the B word and they still got downvoted , so why is that ?
I can’t be everywhere 😉
weird that they picked a name so similar to the longstanding (not gmail based) seemingly unrelated service mailinator.com
one thing that changed: the world found out that Minsky had sex with at least one underage trafficked woman in Epstein’s compound https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed
I also learned from this article that AOL still exists 😅