Grindr won’t allow users to add “no Zionists” to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Media’s tests of the platform and user reports.

Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    I had a colleague who said, he do only use it to find people to have one-night-stands with. He does not care about their political opinions as long as they can “fuck just right”.

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      22 hours ago

      Your colleague is a Republican.

      Either that or a libertarian.

      Either way, they vote Republican.

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        8 hours ago

        We are not Americans but honestly, I don’t think he do vote right-wing. He’s very much ‘‘let everyone live the way they want’’. Curious though what makes you think he’d vote right?