because news articles and media are putting out this narrative that the site was a "safety tool" that was critical in allowing women to "protect themselves", instead of what it actually was: a gossip and hate-spewing site with zero oversight/recourse for anyone who is being slandered.
The app stores haven't pulled it because they are waiting for this to flow out of the news cycle and reduce the impact of this subset of our culture freaking out at them.
Say I were single and ended up being slandered on that site, what would happen? Sounds like the users on there are not the kind I'd want near me anyway.
There is no safe amount of attention from people who spend their time sharing 'drama' online. The most extreme example is the kiwifarms lolcow stuff, but even very normal and boring internet 'microcelebs' learn the hard way that some insane person somewhere will decide they don't like you and go out of their way to interfere with your life and relationships.
That's the equiv of saying I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide.
Just because you don't want anything to do with the type of people who would post pictures of you and slander / shit talk you doesn't mean that you should want that being out there to begin with - it's not like that sort of thing hasn't ever been weaponized against someone before.
The worst part is with this app there is a high chance you'd never find out that anything was ever said about you until the snowball is so big that it'll crush any attempt to slow it down.
Guess this is too theoretical for me to worry. This app was up for years, I was wondering if they ever coordinated an attack on someone other than just avoiding him.
And yeah, I am trusting certain companies like Apple with some of my data to some extent.
> picking sides to induce the least harm to bottom line.
This is why Google has a large number of scam dating apps on its app store. The apps I refer to are near/complete scams with 99% fake profiles and 1% lured, like the phishers of Myanmar, only these are Western. They bring big money in.
Even apps that are not strictly for dating are full of scams, a lot of catfishing is going on with a ton of onlyfans egirl type of profile.
A while ago (about 3 years), I downloaded a ton of apps made (allegedly) to meet new people in cities you don't know (I was going to spend about 3 weeks at a friend and he would be busy with his job); Meet with Locals types of apps.
I shit you not, the vast majority were filled with scam profiles and a lot of what I assume is escort services/soft prostitution and whatnot.
So, I just deleted them all and just met people the old-fashioned way (which was just fine, not sure technology has a real use case for that); but it was an eye-opener.
<tinfoil>Google is invested in ratcheting up the war behind the sexes, because it atomizes people and makes them prime targets for an upcoming companion AI product.</tinfoil>
