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(CNN) -- We've all done things in our past we might prefer the general public not talk about, but only the lucky few get to be the targets of whole industries dedicated to digging those things up.

Targets like celebrities.

Politicians.

And apparently CEOs, that is if the abrupt resignation of Mozilla's new chief Brendan Eich is any indication.

For many, the story of Eich -- who stepped down this week amid criticism of his contribution to a 2008 initiative to ban same-sex marriage-- is one of freedom of speech trampled by the intolerant.

I don't see it that way.

Don't get me wrong; to paraphrase Voltaire, I disagree with Eich's views on marriage equality but will defend to the death his First Amendment right to express them. But as I've written in the past, the First Amendment doesn't protect him, Mozilla, or anyone else from others' using their First Amendment right to signal their disapproval.

To me, Eich's case is about the power of information, and how -- with technology, 24-hour news and social media- -everyone's past is just a hashtag away from being the present.

Sometimes this is a good thing for the public, like the digging up of David Duke's KKK past as he attempted to climb the political ladder. Sometimes the information is significant, but used mainly to score points against a political opponent, as in the GOP's escalation of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky saga. But more often than not it's about gossip to sell magazines or get clicks on a website.
1. Who was a CEO?
2. Of what company?
3. Was he fired?
4. How did he leave?
5. What did he contribute to?
6. Wanting to do what?
7. Did the author agree with his thoughts on this matter?
8. But what did the author think he should be able to do?
9. Which is protected by what?
10. Does that also protect people who don't agree with him?
11. Who was a part of the KKK?
12. What was he trying to do?
13. Who else has been exposed?
14. Who increased the attention on that?
15. How can people share things that happened in the past?

Numbered answers:
1. Brendan Eich
2. Mozilla's
3. No
4. resigned
5. a 2008 initiative
6. to ban same-sex marriage
7. No
8. his right to express them.
9. First Amendment
10. Technically yes, but author doesn't think so.
11. David Duke
12. climb the political ladder
13. Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky
14. the GOP's
15. with technology

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CHAPTER VII

THE STATEMENT OF TIBBIE BIRSE

On a Thursday Pete Lownie was buried, and when Hendry returned from the funeral Jess asked if Davit Lunan had been there.

"Na," said Hendry, who was shut up in the closet-bed, taking off his blacks, "I heard tell he wasna bidden."

"Yea, yea," said Jess, nodding to me significantly. "Ay, weel," she added, "we'll be hae'n Tibbie ower here on Saturday to deave's (weary us) to death aboot it."

Tibbie, Davit's wife, was sister to Marget, Pete's widow, and she generally did visit Jess on Saturday night to talk about Marget, who was fast becoming one of the most fashionable persons in Thrums. Tibbie was hopelessly plebeian. She was none of your proud kind, and if I entered the kitchen when she was there she pretended not to see me, so that, if I chose, I might escape without speaking to the like of her. I always grabbed her hand, however, in a frank way.

On Saturday Tibbie made her appearance. From the rapidity of her walk, and the way she was sucking in her mouth, I knew that she had strange things to unfold. She had pinned a grey shawl about her shoulders, and wore a black mutch over her dangling grey curls.

"It's you, Tibbie," I heard Jess say, as the door opened.

Tibbie did not knock, not considering herself grand enough for ceremony, and indeed Jess would have resented her knocking. On the other hand, when Leeby visited Tibbie, she knocked as politely as if she were collecting for the precentor's present. All this showed that we were superior socially to Tibbie.
1. When was the funeral?
2. Who is Davit's wife related to?
3. Who was she married to?
4. Who was fashionable?
5. Where do they live?
6. Who lived shabbily?
7. When did she show up?
8. Did she seem nervous?
9. Does she knock upon entering?
10. Who is better than Tibbie?

Numbered answers:
1. Thursday
2. Marget
3. Pete
4. Marget
5. Thrums
6. Tibbie
7. Saturday
8. yes
9. no
10. Leeby

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CHAPTER THE THIRD

THE NEW PHASE

1

In the course of the next six months the child of the ages became an almost ordinary healthy baby, and Trafford began to think consecutively about his scientific work again--in the intervals of effort of a more immediately practical sort.

The recall of molecular physics and particularly of the internal condition of colloids to something like their old importance in his life was greatly accelerated by the fact that a young Oxford don named Behrens was showing extraordinary energy in what had been for a time Trafford's distinctive and undisputed field. Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men. He had begun as Trafford's pupil and sedulous ape; he had gone on to work that imitated Trafford's in everything except its continual freshness, and now he was ransacking every scrap of suggestion to be found in Trafford's work, and developing it with an intensity of uninspired intelligence that most marvellously simulated originality. He was already being noted as an authority; sometimes in an article his name would be quoted and Trafford's omitted in relation to Trafford's ideas, and in every way his emergence and the manner of his emergence threatened and stimulated his model and master. A great effort had to be made. Trafford revived the drooping spirits of Durgan by a renewed punctuality in the laboratory. He began to stay away from home at night and work late again, now, however, under no imperative inspiration, but simply because it was only by such an invasion of the evening and night that it would be possible to make headway against Behren's unremitting industry. And this new demand upon Trafford's already strained mental and nervous equipment began very speedily to have its effect upon his domestic life.
1. Did the child become ordinary and healthy?
2. Who was doing work?
3. What kind of work?
4. What was he trying to remember about colloids?
5. What subject are they a part of?
6. Who was from Oxford?
7. Was he lazy about his work?
8. What did he show?
9. Was he encroaching on Trafford's territory?
10. Who do people like Behrens frustrate?
11. Who did he learn from?
12. What did Trafford treat him like?
13. Did he mimic Trafford in every manner?
14. Where did it differ?
15. So what was he looking for now?
16. Was he considered an authority?
17. Was Trafford always given credit for what was his own idea?
18. Who would be given credit?
19. Who did Trafford cheer up?
20. How?
Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. Trafford
3. scientific
4. the internal condition
5. molecular physics
6. Behrens
7. no
8. extraordinary energy
9. yes
10. originative men
11. Trafford
12. a sedulous ape
13. no
14. continual freshness
15. unknown
16. yes
17. no
18. Behren
19. Durgan
20. a renewed punctuality in the laboratory