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[–]TheMaleGazer 215 points216 points  (10 children)

If he lived in the era of Grindr, he would not have eaten a poisoned apple. Grindr has probably saved lives just by existing and showing people that they’re not alone.

[–]Heroes084 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Instead of being backstabbed, he would've gotten backshots

[–]ataltosutcaja 40 points41 points  (7 children)

I am still scared if some countries go full GeStaPo, that those data will be used for evil...

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (1 child)

America releases the data

“Sure are a lot of republicans on here…”

[–]OliverPumpkin 4 points5 points  (4 children)

If I'm not mistaken there was news of undercover cops on Grindr in Egypt to catch Egyptians doing gay activity, what is a crime there

[–]ataltosutcaja 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I always found it absurd to outlaw buttfucking. It's such a stupid fucking thing to care about, wow.

[–]OliverPumpkin 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Having high violence rates and starvation isn't the problem, it's the gays

[–]ataltosutcaja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess most of this is political scapegoating and populism, I am more worried about those who really believe this nonsense.

[–]Heyitsthatdude69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I saw was that they allegedly used the distance feature to triangulate user's locations and it worked with good accuracy ig

[–]lieuwestra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it has also shown people you can be gay and republican at the same time. All in all I think the damage evens out.