Capitol invader busted by Bumble match
https://deadstate.org/capitol-rioter-who-used-metal-whip-on-cops-is-turned-in-to-fbi-by-woman-he-matched-with-on-dating-app/Andrew Taake, 32, future resident of the Terre Haute Federal Pen, tried to pick up a woman on the dating app Bumble by bragging about participating in the January 6 insurrection by carrying a metal whip and pepper spray to attack police with.
Unfortunately for Mr. Taake, chicks don't necessarily dig guys who try to overthrow the government. This one turned his ass in to the FBI.
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to be trying to hook up on.
Bumble CEO on Banning Gun Photos: ‘Why Would We Want to Romanticize a Weapon?’
https://time.com/5188598/bumble-gun-ban-ceo-nra/
Female-driven dating app Bumble announced on March 5 that it would ban most of its almost 30 million users from posting images that include firearms and other weapons on its platform, following the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. (Only those who have served in the military or worked in law enforcement will be able to keep photos with guns in them — as long as they’re carrying them in uniform. The company also will not censor photos drawn from users’ Instagram accounts.) Bumble CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd spoke to TIME about the company’s decision.
Why do this? We were founded with safety at the helm of everything we do — to create a kinder Internet, to create a platform that would encourage accountability and rewrite the rules of how we interact with each other. If you think about what Bumble is, it’s a mechanism to connect. People are putting themselves out there, they’re showcasing themselves and they’re doing so in the hopes of attracting a connection. We don’t want guns to be part of that conversation. We don’t want guns to be romanticized. It was time to stake a stand.
What would you say to users who are gun hobbyists? Why should they not be able to display their passions and interests on a dating app? Our team is a collective of so many different individuals — we have Republicans on our team, we have Democrats on our team. We have team members with family members who are supporters of the NRA. We have team members who either themselves or their loved ones have been a victim of some form of gun violence. We literally have people at every corner of this discussion.
At the end of the day, we ultimately landed — regardless of personal beliefs and politics — that this is a matter of safety and a matter of what is taking place in our country right now. Until the violence comes under control, we should not normalize a hobby and allow that to be exposed to millions of people. We want women — and men — to feel comfortable, to feel safe and feel secure. Weapons don’t send that message. This is not about discriminating against anyone who has political beliefs one way or the other. This is us saying that we’re going to lay the groundwork for our ecosystem, and we don’t want violent weaponry to have a place here.
Why risk losing so many users? We will always put our values above our bottom line. End of story.