• Leftwing Daily Beast Journalist 'exposes' gay Olympians in Rio, endange

    From Bill Cockburn@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 18 06:22:13 2016
    XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality, sac.politics

    A journalist with a popular American website used a gay dating
    app to interact with homosexual athletes and then wrote about
    them with enough description to reveal their identities.

    A reporter with popular American news website, The Daily Beast,
    is facing immense criticism for using a gay social-networking
    app to identify homosexual athletes at Rio Olympics, and
    unwittingly revealing their identities in a story.

    The hugely controversial story that potentially threatens lives
    of those featured in it has been taken down by the website after
    backlash.

    WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED

    Nico Hines, The Beast's London editor, cruised dating apps like
    Bumble, Grindr, Jack'd, and Tinder to write about Olympians and
    their dating and sex habits. "Perhaps the question most people
    have is: How do the rest of us get an invite? Can an Average Joe
    join the bacchanalia?" he wrote in the story originally titled
    "I Got Three Grindr Dates in an Hour in the Olympic Village".
    What followed was a questionable piece in which Hines was
    descriptive enough to reveal identities and sexual preferences
    of the athletes he interacted with.

    "The [height], [weight] athlete from [nationality], who sent his
    address, had a Rio 2016 duvet cover as his main picture. His
    profile read "I'm looking for sex" in both English and
    [language]," read a line from the story. Profiles of some
    athletes - including those of straight women - were also
    described.

    Hines acknowledged in the story that many athletes in the story
    belonged to countries which have serious anti-gay laws, but went
    on to describe them anyway, effectively jeopardising their
    safety and morale.

    At one point, seemingly to suggest he did nothing wrong, Hines
    wrote he "didn't lie to anyone or pretend to be someone I wasn't
    -- unless you count being on Grindr in the first place -- since
    I'm straight, with a wife and child."

    http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories//2016August/g rindr_081216102755.jpg

    The line is a clear oxymoron considering a straight man on a gay-
    app is, in fact, a lie and also counts for seriously unethical
    journalism.

    Hahahaha!

    http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rio-athletes-grindr-daily- beast/1/739433.html

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  • From Bill Cockburn@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 20 02:40:02 2016
    XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality, sac.politics

    A journalist with a popular American website used a gay dating
    app to interact with homosexual athletes and then wrote about
    them with enough description to reveal their identities.

    A reporter with popular American news website, The Daily Beast,
    is facing immense criticism for using a gay social-networking
    app to identify homosexual athletes at Rio Olympics, and
    unwittingly revealing their identities in a story.

    The hugely controversial story that potentially threatens lives
    of those featured in it has been taken down by the website after
    backlash.

    WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED

    Nico Hines, The Beast's London editor, cruised dating apps like
    Bumble, Grindr, Jack'd, and Tinder to write about Olympians and
    their dating and sex habits. "Perhaps the question most people
    have is: How do the rest of us get an invite? Can an Average Joe
    join the bacchanalia?" he wrote in the story originally titled
    "I Got Three Grindr Dates in an Hour in the Olympic Village".
    What followed was a questionable piece in which Hines was
    descriptive enough to reveal identities and sexual preferences
    of the athletes he interacted with.

    "The [height], [weight] athlete from [nationality], who sent his
    address, had a Rio 2016 duvet cover as his main picture. His
    profile read "I'm looking for sex" in both English and
    [language]," read a line from the story. Profiles of some
    athletes - including those of straight women - were also
    described.

    Hines acknowledged in the story that many athletes in the story
    belonged to countries which have serious anti-gay laws, but went
    on to describe them anyway, effectively jeopardising their
    safety and morale.

    At one point, seemingly to suggest he did nothing wrong, Hines
    wrote he "didn't lie to anyone or pretend to be someone I wasn't
    -- unless you count being on Grindr in the first place -- since
    I'm straight, with a wife and child."

    http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories//2016August/g rindr_081216102755.jpg

    The line is a clear oxymoron considering a straight man on a gay-
    app is, in fact, a lie and also counts for seriously unethical
    journalism.

    Hahahaha!

    http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rio-athletes-grindr-daily- beast/1/739433.html

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