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Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out 430

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An anonymous reader writes Citing the need to abide by a law combating "gay propaganda," a memorial dedicated to the late Apple founder Steve Jobs has been torn down. This comes on the heels of new CEO Tim Cook coming out as gay. "In Russia, gay propaganda and other sexual perversions among minors are prohibited by law," ZEFS (a Russian group of companies that originally erected the statue) said, noting that the memorial had been "in an area of direct access for young students and scholars". "After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was taken down to abide to the Russian federal law protecting children from information promoting denial of traditional family values."

Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out

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  • Terrible (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:20PM (#48305081)

    After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy

    I know this is terrible and all, but as someone completely unaffected by this (not an apple fanboy, russian or gay) I find some kind of weird surreal humour in the whole thing.

    Mr Putin says there is no discrimination against gay people in Russia and the law was needed only to protect young people

    Like, how do you even reach this point of reasoning.

  • Because (Score:5, Insightful)

    by MouseR (3264) on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:21PM (#48305083) Homepage

    Putin on a horse half naked is not gay.

  • by Noah Haders (3621429) on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:22PM (#48305089)

    ... the government sodomizes you!

  • Res ipsa loquitur.

    Glad we finally put that one to rest.

    Thank you, Russian oligarchs, putocrats, and dictators.

    Now that we've settled that, next up on /.... who's smarter, Hillary Clinton or Martha Bush. Hint: there's no right answer.

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  • By the same logic, I may well be arrested for sodomy because one of my distant relations is gay.

    • by hey! (33014) on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:30PM (#48305181) Homepage Journal

      Evidently gay is highly contagious. Scientists say it's not airborne, but some of them have got it, so there's obviously a lot they don't know about how gay is spread. It stands to reason we should do everything we an think of to reduce the public exposure to gay.

      • Evidently gay is highly contagious. Scientists say it's not airborne, but some of them have got it, so there's obviously a lot they don't know about how gay is spread. It stands to reason we should do everything we an think of to reduce the public exposure to gay.

        To reduce the risk, we have to tear down all statues of men who ever worked together with a gay man. That's how contagious it is.

        Bloody idiots.

      • by Adriax (746043)

        Of course it is. That's the whole basis of the secret american gay bomb, which russian intelligence reports was in development 20 years ago, so it must be completed by now.

        Obviously the anti-homosexual laws are truly for the public good. Suppressing the natural background count of gayness so if the americans did cowardly attack russians with their dastardly gay bomb it would be easier to detect.

      • Evidently gay is highly contagious. Scientists say it's not airborne, but some of them have got it, so there's obviously a lot they don't know about how gay is spread. It stands to reason we should do everything we an think of to reduce the public exposure to gay.

        I can see the global angst now as a current US president sits down
        in front of a fireplace with a handful of trusted but silent aids to reassure
        the nation and the world that "gay" is not contagious if you wear
        head to toe protective....

        Then in less than a week he or she imports a word like tzar from Russia
        to explain it all.....

    • Nazi comparison in 3...2...1...
  • PR hoax (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:25PM (#48305121)

    Removal of Steve Jobs memorial due to 'gay propaganda' law turns out to be PR hoax
    http://rt.com/news/201855-steve-jobs-memorial-gay/

    • by Anrego (830717) *

      To me, the fact that it was being taken down for maintenance doesn't make it ineligible to be "ordered taken down" after the fact. The fact that it was being taken down to be fixed might have put the idea in someones head, but the fact is if it was originally planned to be put back up and is no longer, then that is mostly the same as if there had been no maintenance plans.

      Very least it seems like all parties have come out with the line, and don't intend to put the thing back up for the cited reasoning.

      Oppor

      • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

        by Anonymous Coward

        What most of the media also left out is the other stated reason for not putting the monument back up: Apple's complicity with the NSA as revealed by Snowden. Plus the monument wasn't being taken down by governmental sources, but by the business group that put it up in the first place.

  • ah, I understand (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rubycodez (864176) on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:25PM (#48305125)

    I didn't know a person could become gay-tainted after they die if their successor is gay. Hope the next person to have my job after I die isn't gay, otherwise my tombstone might set off someone's gaydar. that would be embarrassing.

    • by wisnoskij (1206448) on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:27PM (#48305151) Homepage

      I didn't know a person could become gay-tainted after they die if their successor is gay. Hope the next person to have my job after I die isn't gay, otherwise my tombstone might set off someone's gaydar. that would be embarrassing.

      Particularly if they were also a necrophiliac.

    • by tverbeek (457094)

      By their logic, Boris Yeltsin (Putin's predecessor as President), as well as Viktor Zubkov and Sergei Stepashin (his immediate predecessors as Prime Minister) are now tainted as self-loathing closeted homo/bisexuals ... because Putin obviously is.

    • Especially in a position that isn't controlled by you but these weird people called "board members". Obviously the board members must be super gay.
    • by Etherwalk (681268)

      I didn't know a person could become gay-tainted after they die if their successor is gay. Hope the next person to have my job after I die isn't gay, otherwise my tombstone might set off someone's gaydar. that would be embarrassing.

      Why would that be embarrassing? It's just gay. It's not embarrassing.

      • by rubycodez (864176)

        oh no, "gay tainted" is not the same thing at all as gay. For example TIm Cook is merely gay, but Jobs being "gay tainted" means that even memorials to him must be demolished, no persistence in any living person's memory is allowed. Beware the taint!

  • Given the number of hits on pron sites for "Russian teen anal", I dare say Russia doesn't have anything against sodomy.

  • and why was there... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by dAzED1 (33635) on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:44PM (#48305311) Homepage Journal
    and why was there a monument to Steve Jobs anyway? Seems like "today is monday" would be a good enough reason to tear it down. That said, this was a spectacularly bad reason, I'm just saying no reason was necessary. Doing something for the wrong reason doesn't make it the wrong thing to do - if I make a habit of drinking several glasses of water a day because I think the midichlorians need it for fuel, that doesn't mean I was wrong for drinking water...
  • Did anybody in Russia notice that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook are not the same person? I'm afraid even trying to think like a looney, anti-gay zealot, I can't figure out the line of reasoning that led to this decision...

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