Russian monument to Steve Jobs taken down after Apple CEO Cook says he is gay

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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 sexuality in a Bloomberg Businessweek article last Thursday as the reason the company decided to remove the statue.

“Russian legislation prohibits propaganda of homosexuality and other sexual 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 sexual 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.

What the actual fuck?


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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.

Ultraconservative St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov does know that Ebola is not a sexually transmitted disease, right?


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"Russia does stupid shit in response to gays"

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“After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy,

Is it just me or do I not remember him screaming 'START BUGGERING EACH OTHER ALREADY YOU FAGGOTS' when he announced it.


 
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So... They are mad at Apple for having a homosexual CEO, and which probably in most cases, matters and any logical way doesn't affect the life of the everyday college student.

It was taken down by political extremists under the guise of safekeeping a conservative culture in a country that is disrupt by corruption, fear, extremism, and is mainly based around small communities throughout the vast territory that haven't seen the social breakthroughs like the rest of us have witnessed.

Russia's government needs to be denounced, and where needed, sanctioned for such corrupt behavior towards its citizens, and especially a higher educational institution which can provide future human talent for the nation's success. The least I would ask is a written apology to the institution involved for the dishonest behavior.


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Why was there a Russian monument to Steve Jobs in the first place? That's just weird.


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Why was there a Russian monument to Steve Jobs in the first place? That's just weird.
He was an important person.


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Why was there a Russian monument to Steve Jobs in the first place? That's just weird.
He was an important person.
If I could muted you again, I would, just for saying that.
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So... They are mad at Apple for having a homosexual CEO, and which probably in most cases, matters and any logical way doesn't affect the life of the everyday college student.

It was taken down by political extremists under the guise of safekeeping a conservative culture in a country that is disrupt by corruption, fear, extremism, and is mainly based around small communities throughout the vast territory that haven't seen the social breakthroughs like the rest of us have witnessed.

Russia's government needs to be denounced, and where needed, sanctioned for such corrupt behavior towards its citizens, and especially a higher educational institution which can provide future human talent for the nation's success. The least I would ask is a written apology to the institution involved for the dishonest behavior.

If only. Shame its the largest country in the world and armed to the teeth :s


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Well Jobs isn't gay, so that's a bit strange to take his monument down.


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