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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Apple under fire for ‘Russian Siri’ homophobia
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleApple’s Russian-language version of Siri, the synthetic voice assistant which is bundled as part of the iOS operating system, is apparently not fond of gays, according to the BBC.
When asked if there are gay clubs around in the Russian version of Siri, the software answers “I would have turned red (blushed) if I could.”
Asked about registering for gay marriage in the UK, Siri either ignores the query or answers “I will pretend I haven’t heard it.”
Apple claims the evasive answers are a bug. But the company has been accused of deliberately kowtowing to Russian anti-gay laws which Western countries see as illiberal and bigoted.
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