Michael 533 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Russian monument to Steve Jobs taken down after Apple CEO Cook says he is gay A Russian monument to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been taken down, after Apple CEO Tim Cook’s announcement last week that he is gay. The monument, which is in the shape of an oversize iPhone, was located on a university campus in St. Petersburg, one of the more liberal cities in Russia, until its removal Friday. It was put there in 2013 under the initiative of Maxim Dolgopolov, head of the holding company ZEFS, known in English as the Western European Financial Union, which cited Cook’s revelations about his s-xuality in a Bloomberg Businessweek article last Thursday as the reason the company decided to remove the statue. “Russian legislation prohibits propaganda of homos-xuality and other s-xual perversions among minors,†ZEFS wrote in a statement published on the Web site of Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy. “After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was dismantled pursuant to Russian federal law on the protection of children from information that promotes the denial of traditional family values.†Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law in 2013 that bans “the propaganda of non-traditional s-xual relations to minors," only a few months after the iPhone monument was installed. Putin has since argued that the law is not discriminatory and is intended only to keep children safe. The monument was installed slightly more than a year after Jobs passed away. At the time, an organization called the “Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region†complained that the monument looked too phallic, that its featured face of Jobs “will scare children and students,†and that the structure inappropriately “symbolizes the superiority of the American way of life.†After Cook’s revelation Thursday, ultraconservative St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov called for Cook to be banned from traveling to Russia, telling the Web site FlashNord that he, or other gay people, could bring “the Ebola virus, AIDS, gonorrhea†to Russia. In its statement explaining the decision to dismantle the statue, ZEFS also cited Apple’s participation in spying activities revealed through the leaks of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is currently living in Russia. Dolgopolov even called on owners and users of Apple technology to replace their Apple products with other brands, so as not to expose themselves to undue surveillance. Yet one Russian state news agency is contradicting the ZEFS statement. Russian news service Tass claims that the press service of the university that hosted the monument  the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics  received a letter from ZEFS before Cook's announcement saying that the iPhone monument would be taken in for repairs, particularly to the touchscreen. Tass said it had not been able to secure further comment from ZEFS at the time of publishing its report. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/03/russian-monument-to-steve-jobs-taken-down-after-apple-ceo-cook-says-he-is-gay/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mr Josh 3 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 The Russian government being scum, nothing new there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edu 3,973 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Why this 'monument' looks like one of those cheap and fake iPhones? 🌹 free britney 🌹 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Josh 3 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Why this 'monument' looks like one of those cheap and fake iPhones? Russia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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