An anti-LGBTI and anti-abortion tweet from 2016 led to the firing of Brantly Millegan, COO of Ethereum Name Service. “We believe that ENS should be an inclusive community,” said Nick Johnson, founder of the company.
Nowadays, the twitter account de Millegan has 54 thousand followers.
various members of the community expressed their rejection of what Millegan said, arguing that it is discriminatory.
The community delegates of the decentralized autonomous organization of ENS voted in favor of his dismissal, but the decision was not unanimous. Some of them warned about the dangers of cancellation for their ideas, emphasizing the irony that a decentralized service is centralized by a thought.
As The Verge explains, ENS is the blockchain protocol that converts wallet addresses into custom domain names, with nearly 300k cryptocurrency users under its belt.
Thanks to the company people can create a type of web3 username with the format username.eth.
“Many of you have been hurt by Brantly’s comments in the last 24 hours, and we firmly believe that ENS should be an inclusive community”, said Johnson, founder of the company.
What did the Ethereum Name Service executive write on Twitter?
Millegan, identified as “Catholic, husband and father” in his Twitter bio, he wrote in the 2016 tweet:
Resurfacing his 2016 tweet, he wrote this week:
However, Millegan wrote in an ENS Discord post that he has “never excluded anyone from the company…because of who they are or what they believed.” For the fired executive, it is not “practical or moral” for web3 to “exclude many traditionally minded Christians, Muslims, Jews” who may share its beliefs.
He has not apologized for the controversial tweet.
How did the market react to Millegan’s firing? The ENS price increased by 5.78% to $21.42 at the time of writing this report.
