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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