Are you homosexual, and have specific preferences for your upcoming udkårnes or bollevens skin color and ethnicity, then scoreappen Grindr may no longer be the place.
Etnicitetsfiltre has long been a feature, as users of Grindr, which is primarily gay men, has had the opportunity to buy themselves in order to avoid to see people of certain ethnic groups.
the Filtering is removed in the next app update.
On Twitter writes Grindr, that the change is being made to show solidarity with the protests in AMERICA over police brutality against black men and women.
Etnicitetsfiltrene has been controversial for years, but they remained unchanged, albeit Grindr back in 2018 launched a antiracismekampagne on the platform.
the Same year told Landen Zumwalt, Grindrs former communications director, to The Guardian, that the company has long wanted to remove etnicitetfiltre, but however was not quite ready to let go of them. According to kommunikationschefen gave the filters to the people in the minority groups a chance to match more easily with each other.
Grindrs removal of the filters prevents may users in to handing over their racepræferencer in the app. Users matching behavior is recorded in the Grindrs algorithms, because the app clean master keeps track of who you like.
Earlier in the week it emerged that the streaming service Uktv, which is owned by the british media, the BBC, has removed an episode of the ‘Stuff on the fawlty towers’, since the section contains ‘racist comments’. The section is however to come back again.
Also, the streaming service HBO Max has taken the consequence and made the classic ‘Gone with the Wind’ temporarily unavailable.
It was, according to HBO, the film ‘depicts some ethnic and racial prejudices, which, unfortunately, has become too commonplace in american society’. HBO is planning to get the film back into the range.
