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I'd welcome these applications being banned worldwide. Dating should be brought back to the real world: through friends, communities, family recommendations, and events.

The emphasis should be on finding a compatible mate, marriage, co-financing and procreation. Dating apps encourage endless hookups and destabilisation - this is their business model.

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When your moral views are such that they require banning free apps (or free speech etc) and enforcing your views on other people, that's stops being a morality and starts being a tyranny.

So if I view murder as bad and I ban MRDR, a hot new SV startup that helps murderers plan their murders, I'm a tyrant? The rest of the world isn't obligated to import every social engineering system SV comes up with.

Not sure how dating compares with murder. The former only happens when both parties consent and usually doesn't involve harm.

It does harm to society. Just look at incels. That's a direct result of hookup culture.

> The emphasis should be on finding a compatible mate, marriage, co-financing and procreation.

Why?

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