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Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.
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    It’s referencing the spikes the app sees whenever there’s a republican event around.

    “On the night of July 17—the Sunday that check-in for the [Republican National] convention began—there was a 120 percent increase in users online in the area, more than all previous evenings in July. As of last Wednesday, a representative from Grindr tells Broadly, “more than a thousand guys have used the app near the Quicken Loans Arena.” The total attendance of the RNC is estimated to have been roughly 20,000 people, so this data suggests about five percent of attendees used Grindr during the convention.”
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/cleveland-was-bombarded-with-white-dudes-on-grindr-during-the-rnc/

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      Imagine making an arena sport out of quicken loans

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        No.

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          Too late, I already did, now speedbanking is in the olympics

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            Still better than Raygun

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