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

Posted by samzenpus on from the honestly-not-the-onion dept.

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."

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  1. Terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Terrible by MozeeToby · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I know I turned gay when I heard Tim Cook came out! Wait... that's not how human sexuality works.

    2. Re:Terrible by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because you're the autocratic ruler of a backward nation where a healthy percentage of the population still believes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a historical document.

      Since the time of Peter the Great, Russia has been an odd mix of backwards regressive state with a shiny veneer of modern technocratic government.

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    3. Re:Terrible by Crashmarik · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I for one do do whatever statues tell me to do.

      Just don't blink when talking to them.

    4. Re:Terrible by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sodomy itself is not prohibited, but it is illegal to advocate it.

      I experience huge cognitive dissonance when Putin tells me that the law in question was only designed "to protect children from gay propaganda" when in reality, a statue of Jobs, who is a completely different person from Cook, gets torn down because Cook admitted that he's attracted to men. Not only does it mean that merely saying "I'm gay" could get you prosecuted because that alone is "gay propaganda", even if you said no more than that, but just like in the ole' good Soviet times, your family and associates would apparently be punished as well. Take that, all you idiotic Russophiles out there!

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  2. Because by MouseR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Putin on a horse half naked is not gay.

  3. ah, I understand by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.