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You guys are all conspiracy theorists.
What actually happened: someone who knew someone at Grindr said "man, anti-zionism is really gaining ground on Grindr, huh?" The Grindr employee said "Huh?" "Oh yeah, its like on every other profile." "Huh...."
Then a few employees chat about it, until someone mentions it to their ad exec, who says "HWAT???" The ad exec knows that the Israeli government is committing war crimes - but they also know that as soon as the right wing media picks up on this, Grindr will become the "the secret deviant app for jew-hating gay nazis", and they DO NOT want to spend their weekend handling that shit storm.
Hence the rule.
You can still say "Pro Palestine" in your bio.
I'm really confused. Do you think your theory is better?
Morally better? I mean, I think so - wanting to stay out of a conflict, to me, seems more morally defensible than actively supporting the bad side. It isn't the perfect moral position, but I think it is better.
More likely on a factual basis? Yes. Absolutely.
Semantics. That's what this seems to boil down to.
And, no, they did not "stay out of a conflict" by capitulating (in advance even) to Zionists' apartheid views of the world.
I mean, this is literally the basis of the trolley problem, and the divergence of several major schools of moral thought.
Umm. No. No offense, but that's patently ridiculous.
A corporation chose a distasteful policy to avoid the possibility of losing profits due to negative press. There are no lives at risk. The only risk is "brr! line must go up"
To equate such morally detestable behavior to minimizing actual suffering and loss is bizarre and nonsensical at best. At worst, it's nothing more than helping whitewash the vile and disgusting crimes of an apartheid warmongering regime.
There is no nuance here. They capitulated to genocidal bigotry to maximize profits.
Certainly more based on reality. OP could've also simply used a single word:
"money"
If that were the case, the exec needs to be fired, because this is an obvious shit storm waiting to blow in from the opposite direction
I mean, its possible you're correct. But my point is that, no, Grindr is probably not, like, run by the zionists. It's just trying to stick to a good policy for anyone to stick to - don't get involved in a conflict in the middle east.
Oh no... Some liberals will be angry...
Anyway.
This sounds like someone who actually did software dev
Correct