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mr_lebowski

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3. The idea of this app doesn't bother me all that much ... at least if it's on your phone and you use
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 07:30 AM
Mar 2019

it, it means that you are choosing to do so.

Sure, some may be kids and their parents may've made them D/L it but they'd not have to use it one wouldn't think.

There does exist, folks, some possibility that there are 1,000 (out of many million) gay or lesbian people worldwide who desperately wish they were NOT gay and are looking for what they might consider help and/or hope.

Granted *I DON'T BELIEVE* there's any such thing as a 'conversion' ... but ... if someone wants to try on their own accord, with a free phone app (laughable, really, but ...), I don't really see why Google is out of line for letting them get this stupid app.

It's way different (to me) than people (esp. teens) being forced or suckered into paid facilities that make wild promises.

JMHO.

Pull it! It's pseudoscience, it leads to the invalidation and suicide of LGBT people. It's torture! ck4829 Mar 2019 #1
What the hell, Google? yardwork Mar 2019 #2
The idea of this app doesn't bother me all that much ... at least if it's on your phone and you use mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #3
This is no different than allowing people to sell snake oil or other quack remedies dsc Mar 2019 #7
There's only so much dumb you can regulate against, no offense ... mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #10
This is wrong on so many levels. we can do it Mar 2019 #9
Probably. But I'd argue it's also right on a number of levels. YMMV, friend ... mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #11
Yes, it is different. we can do it Mar 2019 #14
Yet another WTF. I have lots of those! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2019 #4
I thought Google's operating motto was "Don't Be Evil". I guess I didn't realize bullwinkle428 Mar 2019 #5
Social media pulling apps that are legal is going down a dangerous path. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #6
...."not deemed harmful to people."???? What the exact fuck is wrong with you? we can do it Mar 2019 #8
WTF? SkyDaddy7 Mar 2019 #13
Thank you for your calm, high-level discourse on this topic. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #15
Have you bother to read anything on gay forced conversion? Cold War Spook Mar 2019 #17
That's not the point. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #18
WTF!?!? "...not deemed harmful to people" SkyDaddy7 Mar 2019 #12
I know about it. See my other post. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #16
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