Man sues Apple claiming iPhone turned him gay

bbc.co.uk

9 points·edandersen··5 comments

Genuine question, how does this make it past the editors?

Good question. The BBC cannot help itself to post clickbatish fake-news level articles to drive up clicks to its non-UK audience due to competition from its profitable rivals.

Unfortunately, us UK folks are paying our taxes for this nonsensical and biased garbage in which everything from cat memes and 16 yr old tech billionaires is somehow 'newsworthy'. It's now gotten worse as the editors are now trawling over Twitter in search of a story to post or quote in their articles.

I did the right thing and burned that TV license and I couldn't have been more happier. :)

Is there a considerable difference between content that’s served to UK versus non-UK audiences, even for global news? The BBC news app used to be one of my more reliable sources of general news until a remarkable drop in quality over the last 2 years. It’s all phrenological social commentary, barely disguised left-wing moralizing and cheap lifestyle pieces now. On the other hand the BBC World Service radio broadcast has somehow managed to remain one of the few non-editorialized pure news programmes still standing, at least for the main news segment at the top of the hour.

Apple did away with its rainbow logo in about 1998. The modern monochrome Apple logo should not be a carrier nor able to infect anyone with "the gay".

Somehow I have great difficulty believing his story. So he received GayCoin instead of BitCoin? Then he decided to try a same sex relationship in real life? Now he has a boyfriend, can't tell his parents, and will never again be normal?

It sounds like he cannot accept himself and wants to find someone or something to blame.

Furthermore, if he received the wrong crypto currency, how is Apple to blame?

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